A) Washington state license plates for cars consist of 3 numbers followed by 3 letters. How many license plates are there? Do not consider vanity plates or other oddities.

There are 26 letters in the alphabet today from A to Z and there are 10 numbers including 0-9. If the license plates for cars consist of 3 numbers followed by 3 letters, then using counting we get 26*26*26*10*10*10 that allows repetitions for the combinations. the answer is 17576000.