document.write( "Question 1180836: The combination locks on the lockers at Hillside School have numbers from 0 through 39 (inclusive). A locker combination consists of three different numbers, where order matters. Because of the way the locks are manufactured, all three numbers are even or all three numbers are odd. How many combinations are possible?\r
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document.write( "There are 20 even numbers (0,2,4,...,38) and 20 odd numbers (1,3,...,39)\r
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document.write( "There are two cases: the numbers are all odd or they are all even.  You will need to add them together:\r
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document.write( "If the numbers are odd, you get 20*19*18
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document.write( "If the numbers are even, you get 20*19*18\r
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document.write( "So the total number of combinations is  2(20*19*18) = 13680
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