Answer:
Given that there is 71 athletes, and no one ends in a tie.
There’s also 3 medals that can only be given to 3 people max.
So the probability of each athlete of getting a medal is 3/71.
And with each medal being given, the number decreases by 1 for both the numerator and the denominator.
So with each medal given it goes from.
3/71, 2/70, 1/69
All we need is the denominator in this situation.
71(70)(69) And we multiply.
You’d get 342,930.
So the possible ways are 342,930.