Question

At a competition, medals are awarded for first - sixth place. The total number of ways medals may be awarded can be found using a permutation. A. True B. False

Answer 1

Answer: True

Permutation deals with the number of ways in which objects can be arranged.
Combination deals with the number of ways a smaller group can be selected from a larger group.

Answer 2

The answer to your question would be true since the permutations would deal with how many different ways the medals could possibly be distributed.