Question

In how many different ways could Alice, Ben, and Carlos be positioned second, third, and fourth?

Answer 1

six different ways, for small word problems like this, you can just write it out like (A,B,C), (A,C,B), (B,C,A), (B,A,C), (C,A,B), and (C,B,A) where A=Alice, B=Ben, and C=Carlos