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You are taking a multiple-choice test that has six questions. Each of the questions has three answer choices, with one correct answer per question. If you select one of these three choices for each question and leave nothing blank, in how many ways can you answer the questions?

User Rizan Zaky
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Answer:

729 ways

Explanation:

Given

Number of questions = 6

Choices = 3

Required

Number of ways of answering the questions

For each of the 6 questions;

There are 3 possible ways of selecting an answer;

The possible ways for the 6 questions is:


Possible\ Ways = 3 * 3 * 3 * 3 * 3 * 3


Possible\ Ways = 729

Hence, there are 729 ways of answering the question

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