A telephone company needs to create a set of 3-digit area codes. The company is entitled to use only digits 2, 4 and 8, which can be repeated. If the product of the digits in the area code must be even, how many different codes can be created? Choose the correct choice:
A) 20  B) 22  C) 24  D) 27  E) 30

Rationale: "total # of codes possible is 3 * 3 * 3 = 27 . oit of those 27 codes answer : d ."
Answer: D