The X's at the bottoms of the dominoes mean that these areas are not visible, so all you know is that one of the dominoes has a five-spot and the other has six-spot.
If the probality that you can form an end-to-end chain of all 28 dominoes-with the two decipted dominoes in first and last position-subject to the usual rule that the number on the right of any dominoe in the chain always equals the number on the left of the next domino is , where , then what is ?
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