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Three fair six-faced dice are rolled together. The probability that the product of the three numbers shown is divisible by is , where and are coprime positive integers. The value of is ______.
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Answer: 307
, so the product must be divisible by and by . Let = no face is or (product not divisible by 3), = product not divisible by . Required count . . For the power of in the product is at most : faces contribute , face contribute , face contributes . So either all three faces are odd ( ways) or exactly one face is from and the other two odd ( ways): . For use faces without : odd faces , even faces . All odd: ; exactly one face equal to , others odd: ; so . Count . Probability , already in lowest terms (), so . A direct enumeration of all outcomes confirms .
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