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Girls in Math at Yale 2022 Problem 4: Kara Do Be Rollin' Dice

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February 27, 2022
Yalecollege

Problem Statement

Kara rolls a six-sided die, and if on that first roll she rolls an nn, she rolls the die nāˆ’1n-1 more times. She then computes that the product of all her rolls, including the first, is 88. How many distinct sequences of rolls could Kara have rolled?
Proposed by Andrew Wu