SOLUTION: Standard automobile license plates in a country display 2 numbers, followed by 3 letters, followed by 3 numbers. Assume that this country's alphabet has 27 letters. How many differ

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Question 1206422: Standard automobile license plates in a country display 2 numbers, followed by 3 letters, followed by 3 numbers. Assume that this country's alphabet has 27 letters. How many different standard plates are possible in this system if the last number must be an even number?

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Standard automobile license plates in a country display 2 numbers, followed by 3 letters, followed by 3 numbers.
Assume that this country's alphabet has 27 letters. How many different standard plates are possible in this system
if the last number must be an even number?
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        In the text of the post,  replace everywhere
        the word  " numbers "  by the word  " digits ". 


 10        10       27         27        27       10       10      5 even
digits    digits  letters    letters   letters   digits   digits   digits

 10     *  10   *   27     *   27    *   27    *  10    *  10    *  5   =  5%2A27%5E3%2A10%5E4 =  984150000.     ANSWER

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