Question

Malaya creates a password as follows:

letter, number, letter, special character, number

Assuming that there are 12 special characters, if you were trying to guess Malaya’s password, what is the most guesses that you would have to make?
a.
702,000
b.
811,200
c.
205,476,480
d.
254,803,968

Answer 1

Number of possibilities = 26 (letters) × 10 (digits) × 26 × 12 (specials) × 10 = 26×26×10×10×12 = 811,200.

Answer: b. 811,200