There are four choices you can make for the lead reindeer. For each possible choice, there are then three remaining you can choose to fly second, making 4×3=12 choices for the lead pair. For each possible choice there are two remaining reindeer to take up the back position, making 12×2=24 choices for the team of three.
This type of problem is called a permutation problem, and we write Pnr for the number of ways of choosing r items from n possibilities when the order of the items matters. In this case we are choosing 3 reindeer from 4 possibilities, and the order they appear in the flying line does matter, so the answer we want is P43. The general formula is Pnr=n!(n−r)!. For the answer we are looking for we therefore have:
So you would have to cut the two minutes into one minute. so 5 / 2 is 2.5. so they go through 2.5 pages per minute. so then multiply 2.5 by 106 = 265 hope this helped! xx
