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three children in a class of 16 children are going to be awarded prizes for a...

three children in a class of 16 children are going to be awarded prizes for a writing contest. How many possible ways are there to pick the winners if each prize is different?

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Here total number of children = 16

So number of ways to distribute different among 3 children will be = 16p3

= 16×15×14 = 3360

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