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Okay sy mash members doing nods and probability stuff Here

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we go Adam meris has a collection of eight stuffed

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animals which she wants to arrange in a single row

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on a shelf above her bed How many different possible

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arrangements could she choose Thank you Imagine eight seats on

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adam eris shelf these air just stuffed animal seat so

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you know nothing fancy Each seed is simply a distinct

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spot on the shelf Staring at the left at america

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could put any of her eight animals in the first

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seat so she has a choice is to start with

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once she picks a stuffed animal for the first seat

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She has seven choices left and she has seven choices

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for the second seat right so once the second stuffed

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animal seated and she had six choices for the third

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seat Yeah the pattern continues until finally she has only

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a single animal left for the last seat will multiply

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the number of choices for each seat together to find

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the total number of seating arrangements Just multiply mall that's

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it eight times seven times six yada yada yada and

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you get forty thousand three hundred twenty So that's the

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number of different seating arrangements to choose from for adam

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eris in her little ate stuffed animals there Wow that's

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a lot of choices for in a girl Yeah good 00:01:13.346 --> [endTime] luck so that's it We're shmoop

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