SOLUTION: In how many ways can a president and a treasurer be selected from a club of 5 members? Please help me solve this question thank you. I tried drawing a tree diagram and I drew a li

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Question 439257: In how many ways can a president and a treasurer be selected from a club of 5 members?
Please help me solve this question thank you. I tried drawing a tree diagram and I drew a list and I got 100 as my answer but I'm not sure if it's right so again please help me with this problem.

Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In how many ways can a president and a treasurer be selected from a club of 5 members?
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# of ways to choose a president: 5
# of ways to choose a treasurer: 4
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Total # of choices: 5*4 = 20
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Cheers,
Stan H.