SOLUTION: Supposed your computer password must contain four characters, must begin with a letter, and may contain digits and letters only. How many different passwords can you create. (Note

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Question 1177599: Supposed your computer password must contain four characters, must begin with a letter, and may contain digits and letters only. How many different passwords can you create. (Note that in a password, upper case letters are different from lower case letters.)
Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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At the beginning position, we have  26^2 = 52 opportunities with the letters;


and at each of the other positions we have 52 + 10 opportunities.


So, in all, there are  52*62^3 = 12393056 different passwords.

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