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Number theory Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Prove it Canada

Three bins are labelled A, B and C, and each bin contains four balls numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. The balls in each bin are mixed, and then a student chooses one ball at random from each of the bins. If $a$ , $b$ and $c$ are the numbers on the balls chosen from bins A, B and C, respectively, the student wins a toy helicopter when $a = b + c$ . There are $64$ ways to choose the three balls. What is the probability that the student wins the prize?

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