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A fair sortition trial is carried out, and one of the candidates is assigned the number 32,041. If each digit can be chosen from 0-4, and if each of the possible sequences is assigned to a candidate, how many candidates are there?A. 4B. 5C. 625D. 1,024E. 3,125

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The number of candidates are

each digit can be chosen from 0-4-------> 5 numbers

the number 32,041 has five digits

so

(5)*(5)*(5)*(5)*(5)=5^5=3,025

answer is

3,025

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