TEST BANK FOR A First Course in Probability 8th Edition By Sheldon Ross

Chapter 1: Problems Problem 1 (counting license plates) Part (a): In each of the first two places we can put any of the 26 letters giving 262 possible letter combinations for the first two characters. Since the five other characters in the license plate must be numbers, we have 105 possible five digit letters their specification giving a total of 262 · 105 = , total license plates. Part (b): If we can’t repeat a letter or a number in the specification of a license plate then the num...