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the question shud be phrased lik: a die is thrown n times..the prob tht in these n times of throwing the prob of gettin one '1' is 91/216
it wud be of the form
1/6[1 + 5/6 + (5/6)^2...n times]=91/216
so
we get 1-(5/6)^n=91/216 so (5/6)^n is 125/216
so n is 3

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