Call for Nominations for Two Officers of ISEE Secretary and Treasurer Form

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hi everyone in how many ways can a club with 10 members choose a president a vice president and a treasurer and we're also going to do in how many ways can a club with 10 members choose three person governing council so for the first one we're going to use permutation because order is important so basically what you're going to do you're going to write 10 p and we're choosing 3. now that's going to give you if you use our formula here n factorial so that's 10 factorial divided by n 10 minus 3 factorial so that gives you 10 factorial divided by 7 factorial which equals and you're going to go all the way down to the 7 factorial so 10 times 9 times 8 times 7 factorial it by seven factorial so that's going to give you a total of 720. now the main thing you need to know about permutations is that order is important and it's like when we did the multiplication principle you could have done this this problem um basically like we did the previous section you could you could say well we have 10