SOLUTION: If there are 30 students in the class and we need to elect a President and Treasurer for our meetings, how many possibilities are there

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Question 1174608: If there are 30 students in the class and we need to elect a President and Treasurer for our meetings, how many possibilities are there
Answer by ikleyn(52817)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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30 ways to select the President

and 29 ways to select the Treasurer.


In all, there are 30*29 ways different ways to select this pair.

The order (ordering) is important in this problem, so it is about PERMUTATIONS.


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On Permutations,  see introductory lessons
    - Introduction to Permutations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Permutations
    - Simple and simplest problems on permutations
    - Special type permutations problems
    - Problems on Permutations with restrictions
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on Permutations and Combinations
in this site.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
    - ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic  "Combinatorics: Combinations and permutations".


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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II
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