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The digits 1 through 6 are randomly arranged to form a 3 digit number. find the probability that the number is even and greater than 600

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The numbers that match your pattern are of the form 6x2 or 6x4, where x is any of the remaining 4 digits. That is, there are 8 of them.

There are P(6,3) = 120 ways to make a 3-digit number from three of the digits 1–6. Your probability is
8/120 = 1/15
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