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Mr. B has built a new home and he has applied for telephone service. A 5 digit phone number was assigned to him. What is the probability that his number will not contain any repeated digits (from 0 to 9)?

 Feb 11, 2017
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Assuming that we could have a number with all 0's, there are 100,000 numbers possible  [10 digits possible in each of the 5 places = 10^5 = 100,000  ]

 

We want to choose the sets of any  5 of the 10 numbers permuted  = P(10,5)  = 30,240

 

P = 30,240 / 100,000  =  30.24%

 

 

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 Feb 11, 2017

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