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A high school has 8 students who want to be class officers. If there are 5 different positions open, how many ways are there for the students to fill them?

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A high school has 8 students who want to be class officers. If there are 5 different positions open, how many ways are there for the students to fill them?

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Solution

This is a permutation problem because the order in which the students are chosen matters (i.e., being chosen as president is different from being chosen as vice president).

The formula for permutations is:

P(n, r) = n! / (n-r)!

where:

  • n is the total number of options,
  • r is the number of options chosen at a time, and
  • "!" denotes a factorial, meaning the product of all positive integers up to that number.

In this case, n = 8 (the number of students) and r = 5 (the number of positions).

So, the calculation would be:

P(8, 5) = 8! / (8-5)!

= 87654 / 321

= 6720 ways.

So, there are 6720 ways for the 8 students to fill the 5 different positions.

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