Question

A family reunion planning committee with 8 members plans to elect 3 officers - a president, treasurer, and historian. if each office is to be held by one person and no person can hold more than one office, in how many ways can those offices be filled

Answer 1

Using the permutation formula, it is found that these offices can be filled in 336 ways.

There are different roles, hence the order in which the people are chosen is important, hence the permutation formula is used.

What is the permutation formula?

The number of possible permutations of x elements from a set of n elements is given by:

$P_{(n,x)} = \frac{n!}{(n-x)!}$

3 people will be chosen from a set of 8, hence the number of ways is given by:

$P_{8,3} = \frac{8!}{5!} = 336$

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