A pair of dice is thrown independently three times. The probability of getting a score of exactly 9 twice is

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$\begin {array} {1 1} (A)\;\large\frac{1}{729} & \quad (B)\;\large\frac{8}{9} \\ (C)\;\large\frac{8}{729} & \quad (D)\;\large\frac{8}{243} \end {array}$