SOLUTION: How many possible outcomes are there when 3 fair dice are rolled, one red, one green, and one white?

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Question 1190549: How many possible outcomes are there when 3 fair dice are rolled, one red, one green, and one white?
Answer by ikleyn(52803) About Me  (Show Source):
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The number of all possible outcomes is  6*6*6 = 6%5E3 = 216  in this situation.


There are 6 possible outcomes for each colored fair die, independently.

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            You may ask me,  what is the role of coloring ?


It makes all  216  outcomes distinguishable.

Had the three dice be undistinguishable  (identical),  then some  (~ many)  of  216  outcomes would be undistinguishable;
so then the total number of distinguishable outcomes would be less than  216.