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A car registration number consists of three letters of the Russian alphabet (that is, 30 letters are used) and three digits: first we have a letter, then three digits followed by two more letters. How many different car registration numbers are there?

A passenger left his things in an automatic storage room, and when he came to get his things, it turned out that he had forgotten the code. He only remembers that in the code there were the numbers 23 and 37. To open the room, you need to correctly type a five-digit number. What is the least number of codes you need to sort through in order to open the room for sure?

We call a natural number “fancy”, if it is made up only of odd digits. How many four-digit “fancy” numbers are there?

A sack contains 70 marbles, 20 red, 20 blue, 20 yellow, and the rest black or white. What is the smallest number of marbles that need to be removed from the sack, without looking, in order for there to be no less than 10 marbles of the same colour among the removed marbles.

Some points from a finite set are connected by line segments. Prove that two points can be found which have the same number of line segments connected to them.

A rectangular table is given, in each cell of which a real number is written, and in each row of the table the numbers are arranged in ascending order. Prove that if you arrange the numbers in each column of the table in ascending order, then in the rows of the resulting table, the numbers will still be in ascending order.

In a volleyball tournament teams play each other once. A win gives the team 1 point, a loss 0 points. It is known that at one point in the tournament all of the teams had different numbers of points. How many points did the team in second last place have at the end of the tournament, and what was the result of its match against the eventually winning team?

An endless board is painted in three colours (each cell is painted in one of the colours). Prove that there are four cells of the same colour, located at the vertices of the rectangle with sides parallel to the side of one cell.

On a plane, six points are given so that no three of them lie on the same line. Each pair of points is connected by a blue or red segment.

Prove that among these points three such points can be chosen so that all sides of the triangle formed by them will be of the same colour.