Question

The members of the Student Activity Council on your campus are meeting to select two speakers for a​ month-long event celebrating artists and entertainers.The first names of the choices are Ben, Will, Stewart, Hilary, and Kate. How many different ways can the twotwo speakers be​ selected?

Answer 1

There are 24 ways for the people to be selected

Answer 2

Answer: There are 20 different ways to select two speakers.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since we have given that

Number of choices for speakers = 5

Ben, Will, Stewart, Hilary, and Kate.

We need to find the number of different ways to select the two speakers among them.

We will use "Fundamental theorem of Counting":

So, Number of different ways would be

$5\times 4\\\\=20$

Hence, there are 20 different ways to select two speakers.