document.write( "Question 358378: a certain town can use the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 7, and 9 for it's telephone prefixes. how many 3-digit telephone prefixes are possible for this town if each digit can be used only once in a prefix and the first digit cannot be a 1 or a 0? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #255766 by edjones(8007)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! nPr=permutations of n things taken r at a time. \n" ); document.write( "6P3=120 Think of the 120 as 6 columns of 20 three digit numbers whose initial number stays the same throughout each column and that the columns beginning with 0 and one are not allowed. \n" ); document.write( "120 * 4/6 = 80 \n" ); document.write( ". \n" ); document.write( "Ed \n" ); document.write( " |