How many different ways can the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place trophies be awarded to the 8 finalists (assume there cannot be any
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Answer:
52
Step-by-step explanation:
(I replaced
with
since we are to find
.)
(By the order of operations, we take care of the exponents before whatever else we have here.)
(By the order of operations, we take care of the multiplication as we see if left to right.)
(By the order of operations, we perform addition/subtraction as we see it left to right.)
(This completes the simplification.)
We could have also put this in our calculator as:
4(4)^2 - 2(4) - 4
This would have returned 52.
