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In a production of West Side Story, eight actors are considered for the male roles of Tony, Riff, and Bernardo. In how many ways can the director cast the male roles?
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We are interested in the number of ways we can assign these roles to the actors. This is a permutation problem because the order in which the actors are assigned roles matters (i.e., assigning Actor A to the role of Tony and Actor B to the role of Riff is Show more…
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