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Combinatorics Difficulty 2.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

Three dice, each showing numbers $1$ to $6$ , are coloured red, blue and yellow respectively. Each of the dice is rolled once. The total of the numbers rolled is $10$ . In how many different ways can this happen?

(A) $36$ (B) $30$ (C) $27$ (D) $24$ (E) $21$

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