Sum of random variables

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You are given $6$ independent random variables $X_1, X_2, \dots, X_6$ , each uniformly distributed on $[0,1]$ . Let $S = X_1 + X_2 + \dots + X_6$ . What is the probability that $S \le 1$ ?

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