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A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
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23 Aug 2008, 08:34
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judokan wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
3024 4536 5040 9000 10000
= No. of ways select first digit (other than 0) * No of wasy select second digit (exclude first digit selected) * no of ways select 3rd digit (exclude first 2) * no of ways to select 4 th digit (excllude first 3 digits) = 9*9*8*7= 4536
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09 Mar 2011, 22:20
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geisends wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
A)3,024 B)4,536 C)5,040 D)9,000 E)10,000
First digit (1000th place) can be any of 0 to 9 except 0, so it can be chosen in nine ways
Second digit (100th place) can be any of 0 to 9 except the one already chosen for 1000th place, so it can be chosen in nine ways
Third digit (10th place) can be any of 0 to 9 except the ones already chosen for 1000th place and 100th place, so it can be chosen in eight ways
Fourth digit (units place) can be any of 0 to 9 except the ones already chosen for 1000th place, 100th place and 10th place, so it can be chosen in seven ways
Total number of ways = 9*9*8*7 = 81*56. Only option with 6 in units place is B, so answer is B.
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26 Feb 2013, 03:27
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judokan wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
Notice that we are told that "Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0".
The first digit can take 9 values from 1 to 9 inclusive; The second digit can also take 9 values (9 digits minus the one we used for the first digit plus 0); The third digit can take 8 values; The fourth digit can take 7 values.
Total = 9*9*8*7 = something with the units digit of 6.
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23 Mar 2013, 08:28
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Bunuel wrote:
judokan wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
The first digit can take 9 values from 1 to 9 inclusive; The second digit can also take 9 values (9 digits minus the one we used for the first digit plus 0); The third digit can take 8 values; The fourth digit can take 7 values.
Total = 9*9*8*7 = something with the units digit if 6.
Answer: B.
Hope it's clear.
Hi Bunnel,
I took 9*10*10*10=9000 i thought he didn't mention any thing such as repetition not allowed or not allowed may i know if i misread the question?
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mydreammba wrote:
Bunuel wrote:
judokan wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
The first digit can take 9 values from 1 to 9 inclusive; The second digit can also take 9 values (9 digits minus the one we used for the first digit plus 0); The third digit can take 8 values; The fourth digit can take 7 values.
Total = 9*9*8*7 = something with the units digit if 6.
Answer: B.
Hope it's clear.
Hi Bunnel,
I took 9*10*10*10=9000 i thought he didn't mention any thing such as repetition not allowed or not allowed may i know if i misread the question?
May i know where i went wrong?
"Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0"
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08 Apr 2016, 10:59
Bunuel wrote:
judokan wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
The first digit can take 9 values from 1 to 9 inclusive; The second digit can also take 9 values (9 digits minus the one we used for the first digit plus 0); The third digit can take 8 values; The fourth digit can take 7 values.
Total = 9*9*8*7 = something with the units digit of 6.
Answer: B.
Hope it's clear.
I got the same answer almost but I multiplied it by 4! in the end assuming we could rearrange the digits and get a different number. Can you please explain why this is not correct?? Thank you.
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09 Apr 2016, 01:47
MeghaP wrote:
Bunuel wrote:
judokan wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
The first digit can take 9 values from 1 to 9 inclusive; The second digit can also take 9 values (9 digits minus the one we used for the first digit plus 0); The third digit can take 8 values; The fourth digit can take 7 values.
Total = 9*9*8*7 = something with the units digit of 6.
Answer: B.
Hope it's clear.
I got the same answer almost but I multiplied it by 4! in the end assuming we could rearrange the digits and get a different number. Can you please explain why this is not correct?? Thank you.
The method used already takes care of all different arrangements. Try to test with smaller numbers to check.
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21 Apr 2017, 23:42
judokan wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
The first thing to note is that the possibility of choices is 0-9- which actually is ten numbers if you count [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] yet the first number of the digit cannot have 0 so there is a pool of 9 choices to choose from for the first number
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11 May 2017, 21:40
1st digit can be anything from 1 to 9, So 9 possible digits 2nd can be anything from 0 to 9 but not the one used as 1st digit, so again 10- 1 = 9 possible values 3rd can be anything from 0 to 9 except the two digits used as 1st & 2nd digit, so 10-2 = 8 possible values 4th can be anything from 0 to 9 except the 3 digits used as 1st, 2nd and 3rd digit, so 10-3 = 7
Hence total possibilities = 9x9x8x7 = 4536
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11 May 2017, 22:48
judokan wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
Since we have to form 4 digit number with 1st digit non-zero and all different digits. It can be formed in following way 1st digit -> 9 ways (1 to 9) 2nd digit -> 9 ways (0 to 9 excluding 1st digit) 3rd digit -> 8 ways ( 0 to 9 excluding 1st and 2nd digit) 4th digit -> 7 ways ( 0 to 9 excluding 1st , 2nd and 3rd digit) So total no. of ways = 9*9*8*7 = 4536 ways
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judokan wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
1. Ordering is important and there is no repetition, so this is an nPr problem 2. Is there a constraint?. The first digit cannot be zero 3. Number of ways the first digit can be selected is 9 4. Number of ways the second third and last digits can be ordered is 9P3 5. Total number of permutations is 9*9*8*7=4536
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07 Sep 2017, 06:42
Bunuel wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
The first digit can take 9 values from 1 to 9 inclusive; The second digit can also take 9 values (9 digits minus the one we used for the first digit plus 0); The third digit can take 8 values; The fourth digit can take 7 values.
Total = 9*9*8*7 = something with the units digit if 6.
Answer: B.
Hope it's clear.
Let's say the question would have said that the first number could as well be a zero, then the number of identification numbers would be : 10*9*8*7 ? Am i going right?
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07 Sep 2017, 06:48
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SinhaS wrote:
Bunuel wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
The first digit can take 9 values from 1 to 9 inclusive; The second digit can also take 9 values (9 digits minus the one we used for the first digit plus 0); The third digit can take 8 values; The fourth digit can take 7 values.
Total = 9*9*8*7 = something with the units digit if 6.
Answer: B.
Hope it's clear.
Let's say the question would have said that the first number could as well be a zero, then the number of identification numbers would be : 10*9*8*7 ? Am i going right?
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11 Sep 2017, 11:41
judokan wrote:
A company plans to assign identification numbers to its employees. Each number is to consist of four different digits from 0 to 9, inclusive, except that the first digit cannot be 0. How many different identification numbers are possible?
There are 9 choices for the first digit (1 through 9, inclusive). The second digit can be any of the 10 digits (0 through 9, inclusive) EXCEPT it can’t repeat the first digit; thus, there are 9 options for the second digit. The third digit can’t repeat either of the first two digits, so there are 8 options. Similarly, the fourth digit can’t repeat any of the first 3 digits, so there are 7 options. Thus, the total number of options is 9 x 9 x 8 x 7 = 4,536.
Answer: B
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