2015 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 11

In the small country of Mathland, all automobile license plates have four symbols. The first must be a vowel (A, E, I, O, or U), the second and third must be two different letters among the 21 non-vowels, and the fourth must be a digit (0 through 9). If the symbols are chosen at random subject to these conditions, what is the probability that the plate will read "AMC8"?

$\textbf{(A) } \frac{1}{22,050} \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac{1}{21,000}\qquad \textbf{(C) } \frac{1}{10,500}\qquad \textbf{(D) } \frac{1}{2,100} \qquad \textbf{(E) } \frac{1}{1,050}$

Solution

There is one favorable case, which is the license plate says "AMC8". We must now find how many total cases there are. There are $5$ choices for the first letter (since it must be a vowel), $21$ choices for the second letter (since it must be of 21 consonants), $20$ choices for the third letter (since it must differ from the second letter), and $10$ choices for the number. This leads to $5 \cdot 21 \cdot 20 \cdot 10=21000$ total possible license plates. That means the probability of a license plate saying "AMC8" is $\boxed{\textbf{(B) } \frac{1}{21,000}}$ .

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