Question

Sydney is going to announce the 5 starters of her basketball team one after the other. To find out how many possible orders there are, she should: a) Use a factorial ( 5!). b) Use a sum of binomial coefficients, 5 choose x, where x runs from 0 to 5. c) Use a 5 stage tree diagram with replacement. d) Sum binomial probabilities Prob(x|n) where n = 5 p = 1/5 and x = 0, 1,…5. e) Cannot be determined without knowing how many are on the team in total.

Answer 1

solution::

Here the number of possible ways are factorial 5 and the answer is opition A( use a factorial ( 5!) . )