If a campus telephone extension has four digits, how many different extensions are there with no repeated digits:
- If the first digit cannot be 0?
We can pick the first digit out of 9 digits (since we cannot use 0) and the three remaining ones also from 9 digits (this time 0 is included but the digit the we picked for the first position cannot be used so we still have 9 choices):
\[9 \cdot P(9, 3) = 9 \cdot 9 \cdot 8 \cdot 7 = 4536\]
- If the first digit cannot be 0 and the second cannot be 1?
We sum up two cases:
for the total of \(4088\)