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How many combinations can 3 letters make?
Since letters can be in any combination or permutation as long as they arent words as your question suggests, any letter can occur in any of the 3 slots thus the answer is simply number of letters in the alphabet to the power of 3, also commonly known as “cubed”. Thus, 26 x 26 x 26 or 26^3 which is 17576.
How many 3-digit license plates can you have?
This leads to the number: Now, if you are allowed to have the three digit numbers on the left and the three letters on the right, you can have 17576000 more plates. I am going to assume that you meant a general six-character plate having three letters characters and three numeric characters so:
How do they decide which letters are allowed on license plates?
However, in reality, some three letter words are not allowed, some three digit sets are not allowed, thus reducing the total number of plates by a little As for letters, the supervisor for a department’s special plate unit, he and other employees meet informally to decide which letters are OK and which are not. The work never stops. Year after ye
How many three letter permutations of the English alphabet are there?
If you require the three letters to appear first on the left of the plate and the three digit numbers to the right, then you have to multiply the number 1000 (all 3 – digit numbers from 000 to 999) by the number 26 3 which is the total number of three letter permutations with repetition from the 26 letters of the English alphabet.
Is the letter F dirty on a license plate?
Or combinations that someone somewhere once thought might possibly, potentially, be considered dirty. These include BFU, WTF, FYU and TRD. Evans has concluded that pretty much any plate including the letter F can somehow be considered obscene. “Any time there is an ‘F’ in the box, we have to look really close,” he said.