I looked up an example that specifically mentions how the problem is using "assemble", and it agrees with lgbasallote. "Determine how many ways you can assemble a pizza with ONLY three toppings (pepperoni, sausage, bacon). This will depend on the order that ingredients are placed on the pizza. For example, putting on pepperoni, then sausage, then bacon is different than putting on bacon, then pepperoni, then sausage."