SOLUTION: Your Honors English teacher assigns 8 books for you to read over the summer. You may read them in any order you choose. How many different orders are there to read the 8 books?

Question 1043626: Your Honors English teacher assigns 8 books for you to read over the summer. You may read them in any order you
choose. How many different orders are there to read the 8 books?

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

We have 8 slots to fill: slot A through slot H

Slot A has 8 choices
Slot B has 7 choices
Slot C has 6 choices
Slot D has 5 choices
Slot E has 4 choices
Slot F has 3 choices
Slot G has 2 choices
Slot H has 1 choice

Multiply out all the values shown above: 8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1 = 40320

Side Note: this can be found using the permutation formula (with n = 8 and r = 8)

So the answer is 40320

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