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Allen is choosing a 2 letter password from the letters ABCD. the password cannot be the same letter repeated in it .how many such passwords are possible?

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Since we can choose 2 letters and they can not be the same, we have the following possibilities:


{}\lbrace AB,AC,AD,BC,BD,BA,CB,CA,CD,DA,DB,DC\rbrace

As we can note, there are 12 possible combinations of 2 different letters. So, How many such passwords are possible?​ The answer is 12 passwrods

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