SOLUTION: How do you solve: Mark can remember only the first 4 digits of his friend's phone number. He also knows that the number has 7 digits and that the last digit is not a 0. If Mark

Question 372507: How do you solve:
Mark can remember only the first 4 digits of his friend's phone number. He also knows that the number has 7 digits and that the last digit is not a 0. If Mark were to dial all of the possible numbers and if it takes him 23 seconds to try each one, how long would it take to try every possibility?
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Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So he needs the final three digits.
The first digit can be from 0-9.
The second digit can be from 0-9.
The third digit can be from 1-9 since he knows it's not a 0.
In total, then the numbers can be,
numbers
If each number takes 23 seconds, then

seconds.
There are 3600 seconds in 1 hour,
hours or 5 hours and 45 minutes.

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