In: Statistics and Probability
1. UCI is letting students choose a new UCInetID username. Under the new system, each username must
be exactly 8 characters long; available characters are lowercase letters (a-z, 26 possible choices) and
numerical digits (0-9, 10 possible choices).
UCI would like the first character and the last three characters to be numerical digits, and the middle
four characters to be letters.
(a) How many different UCInetID usernames are possible?
(b) How many different UCInetID usernames are possible if none of the numerical digits can be used
more than once?
(c) How many different UCInetID usernames are possible if no character (letters or numbers) can be
used more than once?
(d) You are trying to log in to Canvas, but you have forgotten your UCInetID username over the
winter break. You don’t remember the whole username, but you do remember that the first three
characters are ”3li.”
Using this information you take a guess. What is the probability that you guess correctly? Note:
the only restrictions are those from the original problem, not any previous sub-problems.