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Eight students are competing for a blue, red, and yellow ribbon for their agriculture project. how many different ways are there to present those ribbons if the order matters?

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336

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If the order matters, then there are 8P3 = 8! / (8 - 3)! = 8! / 5! = 8 x 7 x 6 = 336 ways to present the ribbons.
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