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(a) A certain committee consists of 16 people. From the committee, a president, a vice-president, a secretary, and a treasurer are to be chosen. In how many ways can these 4 offices be filled? Assume that a committee member can hold at most one of these offices.

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(b) A company has 37 salespeople. A board member at the company asks for a list of the top 5 salespeople, ranked in order of effectiveness. How many such rankings are possible?

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(a) A certain committee consists of 1616 people. From the committee, a president, a vice-president, a secretary, and a treasurer are to be chosen. In how many ways can these 44 offices be filled? Assume that a committee member can hold at most one of these offices.\newline \square \newline(b) A company has 3737 salespeople. A board member at the company asks for a list of the top 55 salespeople, ranked in order of effectiveness. How many such rankings are possible?\newline \square

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Q. (a) A certain committee consists of 1616 people. From the committee, a president, a vice-president, a secretary, and a treasurer are to be chosen. In how many ways can these 44 offices be filled? Assume that a committee member can hold at most one of these offices.\newline \square \newline(b) A company has 3737 salespeople. A board member at the company asks for a list of the top 55 salespeople, ranked in order of effectiveness. How many such rankings are possible?\newline \square
  1. Calculate Offices Selection: Calculate the number of ways to choose a president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer from 1616 people, where each person can hold only one office. Use the permutation formula since the order in which the offices are filled matters.\newlineCalculation: 16×15×14×13=43,68016 \times 15 \times 14 \times 13 = 43,680
  2. Rank Top Salespeople: Calculate the number of ways to rank the top 55 salespeople from a group of 3737. Use the permutation formula because the order of ranking is important.\newlineCalculation: 37×36×35×34×33=45,297,12037 \times 36 \times 35 \times 34 \times 33 = 45,297,120

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