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In how many different ways can a ski club consisting of 20 people select a person for its officers? the positions available are president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary. no person can hold more than one positions and the each office is filled in order.

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There are 116,280 ways to select the officers.

Since order is important, we use permutations:

[tex]P(20,4)=\frac{20!}{(20-4)!}=\frac{20!}{16!}=116280[/tex]

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