5-character passwords

How many 5-character passwords can be generated, if it consists of two letters followed by three different digits.

340704 486720 492804 676000

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1 solution

Harsh Khatri
Jan 29, 2016

The number of ways in which first two characters each can be chosen from 26 letters is ( 26 1 ) \displaystyle 26\choose 1 .

The last three characters can be chosen from the digits { 0 , 1 , , 9 } \displaystyle \{0,1, \ldots, 9\} in ( 10 3 ) \displaystyle 10\choose 3 ways.

And their various permutations will amount to

3 ! × ( 10 3 ) \displaystyle 3! \times {10 \choose 3} .

Therefore, total number of possible passwords is

( 26 1 ) × ( 26 1 ) × 3 ! × ( 10 3 ) \displaystyle {26\choose 1} \times {26\choose1} \times 3! \times {10\choose 3}

486720 \Rightarrow \boxed{486720}

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