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consider a class of 52 students. the students names are placed in a hat and 3 names are randomly drawn without replacement. if the first person drawn was named the class president, second person drawn was named Vice President and the third person drawn was named treasurer how many different results would be possible consider a class of 52 students. the students names are placed in a hat and 3 names are randomly drawn without replacement. if the first person drawn was named the class president, second person drawn was named Vice President and the third person drawn was named treasurer how many different results would be possible consider a class of 52 students. the students names are placed in a hat and 3 names are randomly drawn without replacement. if the first person drawn was named the class president, second person drawn was named Vice President and the third person drawn was named treasurer how many different results would be possible

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For the first post the number of possible alternative are 52. For the second post one person is already selected and hence there remain 51 alternatives for this post. Similarly for drawing the names for the third person there are 50 viable alternatives. Hence the number of different results would be,

N = 52*51*50 = 132,600

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