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: An election committee of three men and four women has been formed to elect a local representative. Each of the seven members must be assigned to investigate one of seven different candidates. How many different ways can those assignments be made? This question is from textbook elementary statistics

Answer by aaaaaaaa(138)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You have 7 possibilities for the first candidate. For each of those possibilities, you can choose one of the other 6 to investigate the second candidate. For each of those possibilities, you can choose one of the other 5 to investigate the third candidate, and so on...
Therefore the number of ways is:

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