Question 548246
When dealing with permutations - ORDER MATTERS


When dealing with combination - ORDER DOES NOT MATTER


There are no words that you can really look for.  But you just think to yourself if order matters or not : 
For example- If I pick 2 people to be on a student council, one to be a president one a treasurer, order matters.  
Say if Sue was president and Joe was treasurer
this is different then 
If Joe is president and Sue is treasurer. ((SO ORDER MATTERS)


Another example- If I am picking 5 people to make a team, everybody I pick is on the team... it doesn't matter what order I pick them in.  (So ORDER DOES NOT MATTER).  




Just takes practice... definately a tricky concept to get through though.  Le tme know if you are still unsure