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jamie has a cup holder that can hold 3 cups at a time. the cup holders are labled a, b, and c he has 3 diffrent color cups blue,green,purple in how many ways can the cups be arranged in cup holders

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9 because an easy way to figure it out would be to multiply 3 by 3 as an easy trick ;)
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9, you multiply the cup holders by the cups.
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