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At a swim meet, 8 different swimmers compete in the 800 meter freestyle race. How many different ways are there for the swimmers to finish? Show your work

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The number of ways of arranging n different objects or people is n!.

In this case, there are 8! = 40320 different ways for the swimmers to finish

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