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To calculate: No. of ways can the runners finish in first, second and third place.
Answer to Problem 6PPS
There are
Explanation of Solution
Given information:
No of runners
Calculation:
As given there are
So for finding out the ultimate objective that is no of ways runners finish,
A permutation is an arrangement or listing in which the order is important whereas selecting the first, second and third place order is important.
Thus, here permutation is used.
As there are
Thus, number of ways that the runners finish first, second and third place is as follows:
Thus, there are
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