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Electing Officers of a Club Refer to Examples 1 and 4, involving the club
Assuming that all members are eligible, but no one can hold more than one office, list and count the different ways the club could elect each group of officers. (Cathy and Evelyn are women, and the others are men.)
a president, and a secretary, and a treasurer, if all three officers must be men
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