document.write( "Question 1051025: How many different ways can 3 people be seated in a car with 5 seats?
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document.write( "How many different ways can 3 people be seated in a car with 5 seats? \r\n" );
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document.write( "Suppose the seats are seats #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 \r\n" );
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document.write( "Suppose the 3 people are Tom, Dick, and Harry.\r\n" );
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document.write( "There are 5 ways to choose a seat for Tom only.\r\n" );
document.write( "For each of the 5 ways to seat Tom, we can\r\n" );
document.write( "choose a seat for Dick as any of the remaining\r\n" );
document.write( "4 seats.\r\n" );
document.write( "That's 5×4 = 20 ways to seat Tom and Dick only.\r\n" );
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document.write( "For each of those 20 ways we can choose seats for\r\n" );
document.write( "Tom and Dick, we can choose a seat for Harry as\r\n" );
document.write( "any of the remaining 3 seats.\r\n" );
document.write( "That's 5×4*3 = 20×3 = 60 ways to seat all three.\r\n" );
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