SOLUTION: Question If there are 12 people applying for 3 positions how many ways can the positions be filled?

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If there are 12 people applying for 3 positions how many ways can the positions be filled?
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Depends. Does order matter? Are you filling 3 sales clerk positions, so it doesn't matter which person goes in which position, or are you filling one each sales clerk, receptionist, and delivery driver position?

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Update: Student clarified the question. Order does not matter.

So the answer is the number of combinations (not permutations) of 12 things taken 3 at a time.



You can do your own arithmetic.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it