Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Section 5.5 - Assess Your Understanding - Applying the Concepts - Page 305: 33

Answer

There are 479,001,600 ways to arrange the songs.

Work Step by Step

1st song: 12 choices. 2nd song: 11 choices. 3rd song: 10 choices. ... 11th song: 2 choices. 12th song: 1 choice. Using the Multiplication Rule of Counting (see page 298) with fatorial: $12\times11\times10\times9\times8\times7\times6\times5\times4\times3\times2\times1=12!=479,001,600$
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