SOLUTION: Derek is playing a board game with three number cubes. What is the probability of Derek rolling three of a kind or a sum that is an odd number?

Question 1021315: Derek is playing a board game with three number cubes. What is the probability of Derek rolling three of a kind or a sum that is an odd number?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are or possible outcomes.
Six of them are three of a kind
111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666
Half of them (108) have a sum that is odd, half of them have a sum that is even.
Three of them are three of a kind and have an odd sum (111,333,555).
So,

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