SOLUTION: If there is 14 people in a spelling bee how many ways can there be first second or third?

Question 749537: If there is 14 people in a spelling bee how many ways can there be first second or third?
Answer by timvanswearingen(106) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You need to use the fundamental counting principle, which basically states that you look at the number of possibilities for each place and then multiply the numbers together.
There are 14 people who could get first, once someone has come in first, only 13 people could get second, and then 12 people for third.

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