
Elizabeth P. answered 07/20/19
Patient math/stats tutor with Ph.D. in Psychology
There are 26 letters in the English alphabet (a through z) and 10 digits (0 through 9). Thus for each of the five characters there are a total of 36 options.
Each character is independent of the other characters.
Therefore, we can multiply them together:
36 x 36 x 36 x 36 x 36
or
(36)5
which = 60,466,176
There are over 60 million possible passwords.