Review definitions and examples of permutations, combinations. When choosing  4 students from 16 for an online study group, how many different groups of 4 could be put together. When choosing 4 employees from 16 to receive checks of $100, $50, $25, and $10, how many different groups of 4 could be put together?

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Review definitions and examples of permutations, combinations.

  1. When choosing  4 students from 16 for an online study group, how many different groups of 4 could be put together.
  2. When choosing 4 employees from 16 to receive checks of $100, $50, $25, and $10, how many different groups of 4 could be put together?
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Permutations :

We use permutations to find The number of ways of obtaining an ordered subset of r elements from a set of n elements. 

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

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for example 1 we can use the Permutation formula to find a number of ways

 

 

 

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