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Question 1148194: You are taking a multiple-choice test that has 6 questions. Each of the questions has 3 answer choices, with one correct answer per question. If you select one answer for each question and leave nothing blank, then in how many ways can you answer all the questions on the test?

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3 choices on each problem; 6 problems.

By the fundamental counting principle, the total number of ways of answering all the questions is the product of the numbers of ways for each question. So

3*3*3*3*3*3 = 3^6 = 729