A firm is placing orders of 4 different items for supplies among 6 different distributors. Each order is randomly assigned to one of the distributors, and a distributor can receive multiple orders. Find the probability that a) all orders go to different distributors, b) all orders go to the same distributor, c) exactly 2 of the 4 orders go to one particular distributor.
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