SOLUTION: a dress shop owner has 8 new dresses that she wants to display in the window. If the display window has 5 mannequins, in how many ways can she dress them up?
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Question 1176489: a dress shop owner has 8 new dresses that she wants to display in the window. If the display window has 5 mannequins, in how many ways can she dress them up?
Answer by CubeyThePenguin(3113) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Order matters, so we are talking about permutations.
(8!)/((8 - 5)!) = 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 = 6,720 ways
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