How many exams consisting of three questions could a professor build from a bank of nine questions?
1 Answer
Nov 25, 2016
There are 504 possible exams the professor could build with 9 questions.
Explanation:
The professor has any one of 9 problems to select the first question from.
Once the first question is selected the professor then has 8 problems to select the second question from because 1 has already been selected.
Finally, for the third question the professor has 7 questions to select from because 2 have already been selected.
Therefore the number of possible different exams possible are:
