Let a 52 deck of numbered cards be created as follows:

2 special cards: 0 and 1
25 powers of 2: 2, 4, 8, ..., 2^25
25 powers of 3: 3, 9, 27, ..., 3^25

Shuffle the deck and draw at random 3 cards. Evaluate the product of the 3 numbers, say P.

What is the probability of P=0?
What is the probability of P being a non zero integer square?
What is the probability of P being a 4-digit number?

What about if there are two odd powers of 2, making a total of an even power, combined with an even power of 3, or vice versa:

Edited on March 29, 2023, 8:21 am

Posted by Charlie on 2023-03-29 08:01:44