Question

Suppose you want to organize a community watch, one from each street. you have 5 volunteers from maple street and 3 volunteers from elm street. how many permutations do you get?

Answer 1

There would be 15 different options for the community watch.

One one side there are 5 volunteers and on the other side there are 3 volunteers. You just have to multiply 5 by 3 and you get 15 different options.