SOLUTION: A business has 10 locations and wishes to rank the top 3 locations as 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. How many different ways can this be done?

Question 732322: A business has 10 locations and wishes to rank the top 3 locations as 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. How many different ways can this be done?
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A business has 10 locations and wishes to rank the top 3 locations as 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. How many different ways can this be done?
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Select 1 of the 3 as 1st: 3 ways
Select 1l of the remaining 2 as 2nd: 2 ways
The remaining one is 3rd: 1 way
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# of choices: 3*2*1 = 6
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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