Question

Please help at a competition with 5 runners, medals are awards for first second and third place each of the 3 medals is difrerent how many ways are there to award the medals?

decide if this is a permutation or a combination and find the number of ways to award the medals

Answer 1

It is a Permutation.

The number of ways to award the medals are 60

Step-by-step explanation:

Each of the 3 medals is different.

We have to award 3 medals among 5 runners.

This can be done in 5P3 ways.

= 60 ways