Respuesta :
Let's calculate first, how many such numbers there are, where the same three digits are different form 0.
[tex] \underbrace{1\cdot1\cdot1\cdot1}_{\text{XXX0}}\cdot\underbrace{9}_{\text{X=\{1,2,\ldots,9\}}}\cdot\underbrace{3}_{\text{XXX0,XX0X,X0XX}}=27[/tex]
Now, the numbers where there are three 0's. There are only 9 of those
[tex] 1000,2000,\ldots,9000 [/tex]
So, there are [tex] 27+9=36 [/tex] such numbers.
We must count how many four-digit positive integers have exactly three same digits and at least one zero.
We will see that are 36 numbers that meet these conditions.
The easier way to find this is if we just count.
For a four-digit number we can start with:
1000
We have a four-digit number, the zero repeats 3 times, and we have at least one zero, so this meets the conditions.
Similarly, we can construct:
1110
1101
1011
In the 3 cases, we have 3 same digits and at least one zero. At the moment we have 4 numbers that meet the conditions.
With a similar approach we can see that:
2000
2220
2202
2022
Also meet the conditions, so we will see that for each digit {1, 2, ..., 9} we can construct 4 four-digit numbers that meet the criterion.
Then the total number of four-digit positive integers that have exactly three same digits and at least one zero is:
9*4 = 36
There are 36 of these numbers.
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