1. A company is manufacturing license plates with the pattern LL#-##LL, where L represents a letter and # represents a digit from 1 through 9. If a letter can be any letter from A to Z except O, how many different license plates are possible? If the company produces 500,000 license plates per week, how many years will be required to make every possible license plate?
2. A college student eats all of their meals at a restaurant offering six breakfast specials, seven lunch specials, and four dinner specials. How many days can they go without repeating an entire day's menu selections?