How many license plates can be made consisting of 2 letters followed by 3 digits (using the fundamental counting principle to solve)? What I know: 1. 26 letters in alphabet, so that means 2*26 2. 10 digits possible (0-9), so that means 3*10 3. FC principle says given m and n options gets you m*n ... However, the answer key says "676,000" when I got 1560...

Jenny Schroeder

Jenny Schroeder

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2022-11-15

How many license plates can be made consisting of 2 letters followed by 3 digits (using the fundamental counting principle to solve)? What I know:
1. 26 letters in alphabet, so that means 2 × 26
2. 10 digits possible (0-9), so that means 3 × 10
3. FC principle says given m and n options gets you m × n varieties...
... However, the answer key says "676,000" when I got 1560...

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Arely Davila

Arely Davila

Beginner2022-11-16Added 17 answers

There is nothing stating that the letters and numbers can't be repeated, so all 26 letters of the alphabet and all 10 digits can be used again.
If the first is A, we have 26 possibilities:AA, AB, AC,AD,AE ...................................... AW, AX, AY, AZ.
If the first is B, we have 26 possibilities:BA, BB, BC, BD, BE .........................................BW, BX,BY,BZ
And so on for every letter of the alphabet.
There are 26 choices for the first letter and 26 choices for the second letter. The number of different combinations of 2 letters is:
26 × 26 = 676
The same applies for the three digits.
There are 10 choices for the first, 10 for the second and 10 for the third:
10 × 10 × 10 = 1000
So for a license plate which has 2 letters and 3 digits, there are:
26 × 26 × 10 × 10 × 10 = 676 , 000 possibilities.

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