Question

Yolanda has been given a list of 4 bands and asked to place a vote. Her vote must have the names of her favorite, second favorite, and third favorite bands from the list. How many different votes are possible?

Answer 1

24 ways

Explanation:

This question is asking about how many ways you can get by using the condition. The key to solving this question is to find out if you should use permutation or combination.

Yolanda has to vote for favorite, second favorite, and third favorite. This means all the criteria are different from each other and the order is important. Since the order is important and you have to use permutation.

Ways to put 4 bands into 3 different votes:

4!/(4-3)!= 4!/1!= 24 ways