At every basketball game they announce the 5 starting players. How many DIFFERENT ways could they announce them?

1 Answer
sente
Apr 28, 2016

#5! =120# ways

Explanation:

There are five possible ways to announce the first player. For each of those, there are four possible ways to announce the second player. For each of those, there are three possible ways to announce the third player, and so on. We can count this by multiplying the different numbers of ways, getting the total as

#5xx4xx3xx2xx1=5! =120#

Related questions
See all questions in Probability and Permutations
Impact of this question
5523 views around the world
You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License