Question 1156369: Suppose a business owner has a choice of 5locations to establish her business. She decides to rank each location using 2 criteria. How many ways can she rank the 5 cities? What if she wishes to rank only the top three. How many ways can she rank them?
Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, ikleyn:
Answer by greenestamps(13209)   (Show Source):
Answer by ikleyn(52879)  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
This problem, as it is worded, posted and presented, is partly provocation and partly nonsense.
I will explain it why.
Five locations with 2 criteria I can interpret as 5 points in a coordinate plane with coordinates x any y,
that represent that "two criteria".
This set of five points is not necessary ordered.
Therefore, it is not clear, how these points (locations) can be "ranged".
5 objects can be ordered (permuted) in 5! ways, but it is not ranging with the use of criterion/criteria.
So, the meaning of this "problem" is dark.
Therefore, in the form, in which it is presented, it is not a Math problem, at all.
It is collection of words without clear sense.
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