Question

In a certain state, car license plates are in the form of L LLL NNN, where L stands for a letter of the alphabet and N stands for a one-digit number from 0 to 9. How many possible car license plate outcomes are there if all are allowed?

Answer 1

.....26 posibilities for each term - 26³ = 17,576 possibilities for the letters alone
NNN: 10 possibilites for each term - 10³ = 1000 possibilities for the numbers alone
soo..........17,576×1000
= 17,576,000
.. over 17.5 million license plate outcomes are possible