document.write( "Question 1190644: A hacker is trying to guess someone's password. The hacker knows (somehow) that the password is 4 digits long, and that each digit could be a number between 0 and 3. Assume that the hacker makes random guesses. What is the probability that the hacker guesses the password on her first try? Round to six decimal places.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "A hacker is trying to guess someone's password. The hacker knows (somehow) that the password is 4 digits long,
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document.write( "There are    different codes of 4 digits long with the digits from 0 to 3 inclusive.\r\n" );
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document.write( "They are equally likely and only one of these codes works.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the probability under the question is   =  = 0.003906  (rounded to six decimal places).    ANSWER\r\n" );
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