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If you have 5 math textbooks, how many different ways can you arrange them on your bookshelf?

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Take all five books and name them from one to five. From there you can arrange them in any order until you no longer get a different set of numbers. Start with 12345 and go from there.

example: 12345, 15234, 14523,13452 and so on.
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