possibilities for entry code of a building [closed]

Exercice True or Flase

The entry code in a building consists of four digits As this building is located in Paris, some occupants want the selected code contains the number "$$75$$". Then there would be $$168$$ different possible codes.

My thoughts:

since the code is going to be :

$$75xy\quad x75y\quad \text{or} \quad xy75 \quad \text{with}\quad x,y \in \{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 \}$$ then

• $$75xy$$ gives us $$8\times8$$ possibitlies
• $$x75y$$ gives us $$10\times 8$$ possibitlies
• $$xy75$$ gives us $$10\times 8$$ possibitlies

thus there as possibilities $$8\times8+10\times 8+10\times 8=224$$

• "As this building is located in Paris"????? Sep 9 '15 at 19:28
• Probably the exercise intends the four digit to be all different. In that case you have $7\times8\times3=168$ possible codes. Sep 9 '15 at 19:35
• Why aren't your three cases equally numerous? Did you neglect to say first digit can't be 0? Confusing all around. Why assume four different digits? Please edit. BTW: Paris is French "Department" 75. Also 'French 75' is (deservedly obscure) cocktail. Sep 9 '15 at 20:22
• @Aretino you said : $7\times8\times3=168$ could u explain that
– Educ
Sep 9 '15 at 20:26
• I guess 3 positions for '75' then pick two more different numbers. Sep 9 '15 at 20:28

If you can't use 7 and 5 you have eight digits left and there are $8\times7$ ways to choose from them the other two digits. As you wrote, there are three possible arrangements for these digits ($75xy$, $x75y$ and $xy75$) so the total number of codes is $56\times3$.