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There are 3 prizes to be distributed among 5 students. If no student gets more than 1 prize, then can be done in x no. of different ways. Find x?


The answer is 10.

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Melissa Quail
Dec 30, 2014

You are selecting 3 out of the 5 students to win a prize. This is equal to 3C5 = 5 ! 3 ! 2 ! \frac{5!}{3!2!} = 10.

Hence the correct answer is 10 \boxed{10} .

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