document.write( "Question 1200499: 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 5. Assume that the hacker makes random guesses.
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document.write( "There are 4 positions in the password, and there are 6 independent possibilities \r\n" );
document.write( "in each position (the digits from 0 to 5 inclusive).\r\n" );
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document.write( "So,   = 1296 different passwords are possible; of them, only one is correct.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Thus the probability to guess the right password at first attempt is  \r\n" );
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document.write( "     = 0.0007716  (rounded).    ANSWER\r\n" );
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