SOLUTION: Find the number of ways a president, vice president and secretary can be chosen from a committee of ten members, if no member can serve in more than one office.

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Question 966581: Find the number of ways a president, vice president and secretary can be chosen from a committee of ten members, if no member can serve in more than one office.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054) About Me  (Show Source):
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President, Vice-president, and Secretary create a certain order, so order
matters, so it's the permutations, (not combinations), of 10 things taken 3
at a time.

10P3 = 10*9*8 = 720 ways.

Edwin