document.write( "Question 202590: A license plate must have one letter (not I or O) followed by four digits followed by a defferent letter from the first letter (not I or O). How many possible license plates are there? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "There are 26 letters in the alphabet. Leaving out I and O, that leaves 24 letters from which to choose. Once you have chosen the first letter, there are 10,000 ways to chose the 4 digits if you allow 0000. Then once you have chosen the first letter and the 4 digits, there are 23 letters to choose from since you cannot repeat the first letter, so in total:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "You can do your own arithmetic. The easy way is to multiply 24 times 23 and then tack four zeros on the end of your answer.\r
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