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Combinatorics Difficulty 3.6 AMC 10/12 Find the answer

Una rolls 66 standard 66-sided dice simultaneously and calculates the product of the 66{ } numbers obtained. What is the probability that the product is divisible by 4?4?

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Solution

We will use complementary counting to find the probability that the product is not divisible by 44. Then, we can find the probability that we want by subtracting this from 1. We split this into 22 cases.
Case 1: The product is not divisible by 22.
We need every number to be odd, and since the chance we roll an odd number is 12,\frac12, our probability is (12)6=164.\left(\frac12\right)^6=\frac1{64}.
Case 2: The product is divisible by 22, but not by 44.
We need 55 numbers to be odd, and one to be divisible by 22, but not by 44. There is a 12\frac12 chance that an odd number is rolled, a 13\frac13 chance that we roll a number satisfying the second condition (only 22 and 66 work), and 66 ways to choose the order in which the even number appears.
Our probability is (12)5(13)6=116.\left(\frac12\right)^5\left(\frac13\right)\cdot6=\frac1{16}.
Therefore, the probability the product is not divisible by 44 is 164+116=564\frac1{64}+\frac1{16}=\frac{5}{64}.
Our answer is 1564=(C) 59641-\frac{5}{64}=\boxed{\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{59}{64}}.
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