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Re: All employees at Company W are assigned unique employee ID [#permalink]
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This is a permutation problem, so lay out your slots to fill and then multiply. For choice (A) you have 1 slot for a letter and two slots for numerals. There are 26 choices for your letter and 10 choices for your first numeral. Because you can’t repeat numerals, there are 9 choices for your second numeral. Thus, the number of different codes that can be made is 26 × 10 × 9 = 2,340. Eliminate choice (A). For correct choice (B), you have two spots for letters and two for numerals, so you have 26 × 26 (letters can repeat) × 10 × 9 = 60,840. Choice (C) is incorrect because the number of different codes consisting of one letter and one numeral is 26 × 10 = 260. The only correct answer is choice (B).

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Re: All employees at Company W are assigned unique employee ID [#permalink]
sandy in option A, is your first choice of numbers not supposed to be 9 and the second becomes 10, since the question says 2digit

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