Q. How many ways can you pick a president, a vice president, a secretary and a treasurer out of 28 people for student council?
Understand the problem: Understand the problem.We need to find the number of different ways to choose 4 different positions from a group of 28 people. This is a permutation problem because the order in which we select the people for the different positions matters.
Calculate president: Calculate the number of ways to choose the president.There are 28 people to choose from for the president position. So, there are 28 possible choices for president.
Calculate vice president: Calculate the number of ways to choose the vice president.After choosing a president, we have 27 people left to choose from for the vice president position. So, there are 27 possible choices for vice president.
Calculate secretary: Calculate the number of ways to choose the secretary.After choosing a president and a vice president, we have 26 people left to choose from for the secretary position. So, there are 26 possible choices for secretary.
Calculate treasurer: Calculate the number of ways to choose the treasurer.After choosing a president, a vice president, and a secretary, we have 25 people left to choose from for the treasurer position. So, there are 25 possible choices for treasurer.
Calculate total: Calculate the total number of ways to choose all four positions.To find the total number of ways to choose all four positions, we multiply the number of choices for each position together.Total number of ways =28 (president) ×27 (vice president) ×26 (secretary) ×25 (treasurer)
Perform calculation: Perform the calculation.Total number of ways =28×27×26×25=1,891,800
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