SOLUTION: How many different license plates can be made that have one letter followed by 4 digits(the digits are the numbers 0-9)? What is the probability that one of these license plates (

Question 1131418: How many different license plates can be made that have one letter followed by 4 digits(the digits are the numbers 0-9)?
What is the probability that one of these license plates (randomly selected) would be A-1234)?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

There are 26 letters.  There are 10000 sequences of 4 digits
from 0000 to 9999 inclusive.

So there are 26∙10000 = 260000 possible different license plates.

The probability that a randomly selected license plate is A-1234 
is 1 out of 260000 or 1/260000.

Edwin

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