You roll three regular six sided dice.
The probability that you will be able to arrange the resulting three digits to form a three digit cube number is where and are coprime positive integers.
What is ?
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There are four three digit cube numbers containing only the digits 1 to 6 :
So, you must roll one of the following combinations of digits:
Total: 1 5 Ways
And there are 6 3 = 2 1 6 ways to roll the three dice.
So, the probability is:
P = 2 1 6 1 5 = 7 2 5
5 + 7 2 = 7 7