# Maths Paper 1, November 2024, question 12.2

> Work out how many different passes can be made under these conditions: • No vowel... Marked mark by mark. Q12.2, Maths Paper 1 November 2024, 4 marks.

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Subject: Maths. Source: Based on Nov 2024 · Paper 1 · Q12.2. Marks: 4. Not yet checked by a teacher.

## Question 12.2 (4 marks)

A security pass has 4 characters in the pattern letter | digit | letter | digit. The characters come from the 26 letters of the alphabet and the digits 0 to 9.

Work out how many different passes can be made under these conditions:
• No vowel (A, E, I, O, U) may be used
• The first letter cannot be M or N
• Within the pass, every letter is different and every digit is different
• The last digit must be even

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