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Question 1131077: I was having a little trouble with these question any help would be appreciated!
A history pop quiz has one question in which students are asked to arrange the following presidents in chronological order: Hayes, Taft, Polk, Taylor, Grant, and Pierce.
After carefully reading the scenario, determine the number of possible different arrangements of the presidents.

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There are 6 ways to choose the first name. Then, for each of those 6 ways, there are 5 ways to choose the second name, for a total of 30 ways to choose the first two names, then times 4, then times 3... But this is just the formula for the number of PERMUTATIONS of 6 things, namely 6 factorial.


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