Brainteaser Answer

In the land of Woz, each person has only one car. The license plate of each car is different and contains just one letter and one one-digit number including zero. How many people live in the land of Woz?

Answer: Take the number of possible digits for the first slot, times the number of possible digits for the second slot, times 2 (because the two could be swapped.) You get 26*10*2 = 520 possible plates. The above answer assumes that you cannot use lower case letters.

The winner is ME sophomore Henry Lopez.

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