[Math] Probability of All Distinct Faces When Six Dice Are Rolled

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If six fair dice are rolled what is probability that each of the six numbers will appear exactly once?

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Imagine you throw one after the other. You consider a throw as a success if the number is different from all previous numbers. You start with one. This is always a succes so $P(\text{first}) = 1 = \frac{6}{6}$. Your second throw is a success if one of the remaining $5$ numbers shows, so $P(\text{second}) = \frac{5}{6}$. And so on. Since all the throws are independent, the total probability is the product of all separate probabilities:

$P(\text{all numbers are different}) = \frac{6}{6} \cdot \frac{5}{6} \cdot \frac{4}{6} \cdot \frac{3}{6} \cdot \frac{2}{6} \cdot \frac{1}{6}$

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