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A code word is to consist of two English alphabets followed by two distinct numbers between 1 and 9. For example, CA23 is a code word. How many such code words are there?

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There are in all 26 English alphabets. We have to choose 2 distinct alphabets.
First alphabet can be selected in 26 ways. Second alphabet can be selected in 25 ways. Again out of 9 Digits (1 to 9), first digit can be selected in 9 ways. second digit can be selected in 8 ways.
Thus, the number of distinct codes
=26×25×9×8
=46800

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