Question

State if the scenario involves a permutation or a combination. Then find the number of possibilities.

The student body of 290 students wants to elect a president and vice president.

Permutation/Combination:

Answer:

Answer 1

Permutation. ; 83810 ways

Explanation:

Permutation and combination methods refers to mathematical solution to finding the number of ways of making selection for a group of objects.

Usually, selection process whereby the order of selection does not matter are being treated using permutation, while those which takes the order of selection into cognizance are calculated using combination.

Here, selecting 2 members (president and vice president) from 290 ; since order of arrangement does not matter, we use permutation ;

Recall :

nPr = n! ÷ (n - r)!

Hence,

290P2 = 290! ÷ (290 - 2)!

290P2 = 290! ÷ 288!

290P2 = (290 * 289) = 83810 ways