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Rastapopoulos had announced that it would issue six-digit identity numbers to all his soldiers using numbers 0 through 9. If each number has to differ from every other number in at least two places. What is the highest population the island can have?
A. 99999
B. 100000
C. 999999
D. None of these

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The answer to this question is `10^5`. Instead of finding a six digit number with two  different digits in any two numbers, find a 5 digit number with 1 different digit in any two  numbers (which will always have a different digit between 2 numbers) and just add the last  digit in the units place. This 5 digit number can be anything from 0 to 99999 and can be  done in `10^5` ways. The `6^(​th)`​ digit is obtained by adding the first 5 digits and taking the units  place of the sum. 

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