Counting codes. How many 3-digit telephone area codes are

possible if the first digit cannot be 0 or 1?

There are 10 digits 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 if we can't use 0 and 1 then there are only 8 choices for the first digit and only 2 choices for the second digit and 10 for the third so there are 8*2*10 = 160 possibilities.