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Twelve balls are distributed among three boxes, find the probability that the first box will contains three balls.

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To solve the problem of finding the probability that the first box will contain exactly three balls when distributing twelve balls among three boxes, we can follow these steps: ### Step 1: Calculate the Total Number of Ways to Distribute the Balls Each of the 12 balls can go into any of the 3 boxes. Therefore, for each ball, there are 3 choices. The total number of ways to distribute the 12 balls is given by: \[ \text{Total ways} = 3^{12} \] ...
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