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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?

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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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?

User Sudheer KB
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336

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User Dionysian
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If the order matters, then we are dealing with permutation. There are 8 students and three colors. This gives us the expression

₈P₃

which is equal to 336.

Therefore, there are 336 different ways.
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