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There are three boxes, in each of which there are balls numbered from 0 to 9. One ball is taken from each box. What is the probability that

a) three ones were taken out;

b) three equal numbers were taken out?

A player in the card game Preferans has 4 trumps, and the other 4 are in the hands of his two opponents. What is the probability that the trump cards are distributed a) \(2: 2\); b) \(3: 1\); c) \(4: 0\)?

Prove that in a three-digit number, that is divisible by 37, you can always rearrange the numbers so that the new number will also be divisible by 37.

The numbers \(1, 2,\dots ,99\) are written on 99 cards. Then the cards are shuffled and placed with the number facing down. On the blank side of the cards, the numbers \(1, 2, \dots , 99\) are once again written.

The sum of the two numbers on each card are calculated, and the product of these 99 summations is worked out. Prove that the end result will be an even number.

Prove that for \(x \ne \pi n\) (\(n\) is an integer) \(\sin x\) and \(\cos x\) are rational if and only if the number \(\tan x/2\) is rational.