Hello team, I think below problem in the variation quiz has wrong answer. Going back to the combination lock example from the lecture, imagine the correct code consisted of a single 4-letter word. However, this time the passcode only consists of the letters of “password”. How many possible passcodes are there? 4^8 incorrect8^4 7^4 4^7 I think Correct option is 8^4. The word 'Password' contains eight letters and correct code consisted of single 4-letters. thus it may be 8^4. Correct me if I am wrong. Link is : https://learn.365datascience.com/courses/probability/variations-with-repetition

Hey Adnan, Thanks for reaching out! Even though the word "password" consists of 8 letters, it only consists of 7 unique letters (double "s"). Hence, if the code is "rows" it doesn't matter which s we use since it's the same letter. Hence, we only have 7 letters to work with. Best, 365 Vik

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