SOLUTION: You have four different colored pencils. You give them away to four different people. How many possible combinations can there be?

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Question 611256: You have four different colored pencils. You give them away to four different people. How many possible combinations can there be?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Assuming order matters, there are 4! = 4*3*2*1 = 24 different ways to do this.
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