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Q. How many different license plates are possible, if each plate contains a sequence of three letters starting with D followed by four digit - non zero number.

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Multiply the ways to fill the 3 letter-slots (first fixed as D) by the ways to fill the 4 non-zero digit-slots, using the multiplication principle; repetition is allowed within each group of slots (no restriction against it is stated).

n_1, n_2,\ldots,n_k

Letters (3 slots): the first letter must be D $\Rightarrow 1$ choice. The 2nd and 3rd letters can be any of the $26$ letters of the alphabet (repetition allowed) $\Rightarrow 26$ choices each. Ways for the letter part $= 1\times26\times26 = 676$ .
Digits (4 slots): "non-zero number" means every digit is chosen from $\{1,2,\ldots,9\}$ , i.e. $9$ choices per digit slot, with repetition allowed. Ways for the digit part $= 9\times9\times9\times9 = 9^4$ . …

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$Q. The number of 5 digit numbers, all digits of which are odd is:$
(a) $5^6$
(b) $25$
(c) $625$
(d) $5^5$
›Reveal solutionSolution

Each of the 5 digit-positions is filled independently from the 5 odd digits.

The odd digits available are $\{1,3,5,7,9\}$ , a set of 5 digits. Since none of them is $0$ , there is no restriction on the leading digit either. Each of the 5 positions of the number can be filled in 5 ways, independ …

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$Q. The number of 5 digit numbers all digits of which are odd is:$
(a) $5^6$
(b) 25
(c) 625
(d) $5^5$
›Reveal solutionSolution

With 5 choices of odd digit for each of the 5 positions (no restriction, since all odd digits are already non-zero), the count is $5^5$ .

The odd digits are $1,3,5,7,9$ -- exactly 5 of them.

A 5-digit number has 5 positions, and unlike a general 5-digit number problem, there's no separate restriction on the leading digit here, because none of the allowed digits (odd digits) is zero anyway.

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$Q. The number of five digit numbers in which all digits are even, is:$
(a) $4\times 5^4$
(b) $4\times 5^5$
(c) $5^5$
(d) $5\times 5$
›Reveal solutionSolution

With digits restricted to $\{0,2,4,6,8\}$ , the first digit excludes 0 (4 choices) and the remaining 4 digits are unrestricted (5 choices each), giving $4\times 5^4$ .

The even digits available are $0, 2, 4, 6, 8$ — 5 digits in total, and repetition is allowed (the question only restricts which digits may be used, not that they be distinct).

For a 5-digit number, the first (leftmost) digit cannot be 0, so it has $5-1=4$ choices.

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