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AMC 12 2000 Problem 23

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Professor Gamble buys a lottery ticket, which requires that he pick six different integers from 11 through 4646, inclusive. He chooses his numbers so that the sum of the base-ten logarithms of his six numbers is an integer. It so happens that the integers on the winning ticket have the same property- the sum of the base-ten logarithms is an integer. What is the probability that Professor Gamble holds the winning ticket?

(A) 1/5(B) 1/4(C) 1/3(D) 1/2(E) 1\textbf {(A)}\ 1/5 \textbf {(B)}\ 1/4 \textbf {(C)}\ 1/3 \textbf {(D)}\ 1/2 \textbf {(E)}\ 1

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