SOLUTION: In how many ways can 3 red, 4 blue, and 2 green pens be distributed to 9 students seated in a row if each student receives one pen?
What I've tried so far: I added the given nu
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Question 422683: In how many ways can 3 red, 4 blue, and 2 green pens be distributed to 9 students seated in a row if each student receives one pen?
What I've tried so far: I added the given numbers of pens to get the total amount of pens which equals 9. I then mulitiplied that by the number of students in each row, which is also nine. So I finished with 81...
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 9! = 9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1 = 362880 different ways to distribute the 9 pens to the 9 students.
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