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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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total=12
total ways=`3*3*3...*3=3^12`
3 balls`->.^12C_3`
9 balls`->2^9`
`P=(.^12C_3*2^9)/3^12`.
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