SOLUTION: Four students are to go for dinner and order a hamburger, a fish burger, a cheeseburger and beef burger (one burger for each). When the waitress returns with the food, she forgets

Question 1172029: Four students are to go for dinner and order a hamburger, a fish burger, a cheeseburger and beef burger (one burger for each). When the waitress returns with the food, she forgets which student orders which items and simply places a burger before each student. In how many ways can the waitress do this?
Answer by ikleyn(52792) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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There are 4! = 4*3*2*1 = 24 possible permutations of 4 items.    ANSWER

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This problem is on PERMUTATIONS.

On Permutations, see introductory lessons
    - Introduction to Permutations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Permutations
    - Simple and simplest problems on permutations
    - Special type permutations problems
    - Problems on Permutations with restrictions

    - OVERVIEW of lessons on Permutations and Combinations
in this site.

Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
    - ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Combinatorics: Combinations and permutations".

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