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Question 1171412: You are taking a quiz that has 8 multiple-choice questions. If each question has 5 possible answers, how many different ways are there to answer the test?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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For 1 question, there are 5 different possible ways to answer.

For 2 questions, there are 5*5 = 25 different possible ways to answer.

. . . . and so on . . . .

For 8 questions, there are 5%5E8 = 390625 different ways to answer.

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