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Question 1185993: The 14 teams in the local Little League are listed in the newspaper. How many listings are possible?

Can you please help me with this homework question?
Answer by ikleyn(52817) About Me  (Show Source):
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There are 14! permutations (listings) of 14 items.


14! = 1*2*3*4*5*6*7*8*9*10*11*12*13*14 = 87178291200.


ANSWER.  87178291200  different listings are possible.



Any of 14 teams can be listed first.

Any of remaining 13 teams can be listed second.


and so on . . .

Solved and explained.

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This problem is on PERMUTATIONS.


On Permutations,  see introductory lessons
    - Introduction to Permutations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Permutations
    - Simple and simplest problems on permutations
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on Permutations and Combinations
in this site.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
    - ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic  "Combinatorics: Combinations and permutations".


Save the link to this textbook together with its description

Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/complex/ALGEBRA-II-YOUR-ONLINE-TEXTBOOK.lesson

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