The Environmental Protection Agency Must Inspect Nine Factories for Complaints

question 148

Multiple Choice

The Environmental Protection Agency must inspect nine factories for complaints of water pollution. In howmany different ways can a representative visit five of these to investigate this week?

• A) 15,120
• B) 362,880
• C) 5
• D) 45

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