Question

A six-character license plate can be any three letters of the alphabet, followed by any three numerical digits. How many different license plates are possible?

Answer 1

17,576,000 different license plates are possible.

Explanation:

Fundamental counting principle:

States that if there are p ways to do a thing, and q ways to do another thing, and these two things are independent, there are p*q ways to do both things.

In this question:

For each letter, there are 26 possible outcomes.

For each digit, 10 possible outcomes.

So

L - L - L - D - D - D

Number of possible outcomes:

26 - 26 - 26 - 10 - 10 - 10

Each character of the license plate is independent, so, by the fundamental counting principle:

26*26*26*10*10*10 = 17,576,000

17,576,000 different license plates are possible.