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Let P be the number of distinct ways of painting six sides of a cube with 6 distinct colours, where you would regard two cube colourings the same if one can be obtained from the other by rotation, then sum of digits of  P  is ________

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answer is 3.

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Colour one side with the ugliest colour, and put the cube on a table ugly side down. There are 5 choices for the colour on top. For each of these choices, colour the side facing you with the nicest remaining colour. The last three sides can be coloured in 3! ways, so the number of colourings is (5)(3!).

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