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How many ways can you arrange 3 marbles from a group of 5 marbles?

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Answer:

60 arrangements

Explanation:

This is a permutation, since I am assuming that order matters. To solve this you start at the number of items you have and multiply that by 1 less than the max until number of items are used up.

5P3 = 5 * 4 * 3 = 60

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