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Car license plates in California take the form of 1RTY345. If zero cannot be used in the first position and repeats are allowed in the other 6 positions, how many license plates are possible?

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The total possibilities for license plate arrangements are found using combinations.

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Let's check 1RTY345. Four of them are digits and 3 of them are letters. 0 cannot be used in the first position. ...

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