how many ways can a president, a vice-president and a secretary be chosen from 11 members of a club assuming that one person cannot hold more than one position? a) 1,020 b) 990 c) 980 d) 145 e) 165 f) none of the above.

Respuesta :

By using the concept of Permutations and Combinations, the Counting Principle president, a vice-President, and the secretary of the club can be chosen in 990 ways.

Permutations and Combinations are about making arrangements and making selections on the basis of certain formulas

The re-arranging of any given given data which is sorted in some ordered way is called a permutation. The “permutation” word actually tells us that change the linear order of the ordered set.

Selecting items from a huge source of items without taking any care about their order is called combinations.

We need to choose three members  out of 11 members. So here we use a combination. So selecting r things from n things we can do selection in ncr ways, so we can choose of members in 11c1×10c1×9c1 ways

We know that ncr is equivalent to [tex]\frac{n!}{r!(n-r)!}[/tex]

So, using this concept total number of ways to select a member of a club

=((11c1)×(10c1)×(9c1))

=11×10×9

=990 ways

Hence president, vice president and secretary  can be selected by 990 ways

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