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A bag contains marbles of different colors. How many ways unique ways or orders can you select 3 marbles

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The answer is 6.

Think about the different marbles as marble '1', marble '2', and marble '3'.

If you fix the marble '1' to be the first pick, you're going to have two distinct possibilities.

_1_ _2_ _3_ and _1_ _3_ _2_

If you fix marble '2' as the first the same idea applies. If you multiply the amount of possibilities for each fixated marble by the total amount of marbles, you're going to get 3x2 = 6.

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