1. The full space of events consists of 9999-999 = 9000 elements (4-digit numbers). 2. Of them, the favorable sub-space are those 4-digit numbers that have no repeating digits. The number of elements in this sub-space = 9*9*8*7 (any of 9 digits from 1 to 9 in the left-most position; (0 (zero) is excluded); any of remaining 9 digits in the next position; (0 is included !) . . . and so on . . . 3. Hence, the probability under the question is= 0.504 = 50.4%.