Question

A professor has eight different tasks to assign, one to each of her eight teaching assistants. In how

many different ways could she make the assignments?

Answer 1

40320

Explanation:

There are 8 different people we could assign to the first task. Now there are 7 tasks and 7 people left. There are 7 different people we could assign to the next task. And so on

8 *7*6*5*4*3*2*1

8!

40320