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SAT Math 2.3 Statistics and Probability
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Here’s your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Permutations.
- 00:06
The preferred hairstyle of mathematicians.
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Six students are arranged in a row.
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How many different ways can this happen? And here are the potential answers…
- 00:18
When we are arranging students in a row, we are counting permutations.
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The easy way to solve one of these permutation problems is
- 00:28
to simply take the factorial of the number we are ordering.
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In this case…it's 6.
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We start with 6 spaces to place the students.
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When we go to place the first student, we have 6 to choose from.
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Then, for our next slot, there are only 5 left.
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With each successive space, there is one less
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choice, since another was used up in the previous slot.
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Now, to find the possible permutations of students, we simply multiply the number of
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choices for all slots together.
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Which equals 720, that's 6 factorial.
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So we get 720 possible outcomes. Our answer is just (C).
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