Provide an Appropriate Response

question 166

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-Suppose that 4 items are to be selected from N items and that repetitions are not allowed. Which of the following is true?

• A)There are 4 times as many permutations as combinations.
• B)There are 4 times as many combinations as permutations.
• C)There are 24 times as many combinations as permutations.
• D)There are 24 times as many permutations as combinations.

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Definitions:

Oceanic Trench

Deep, elongated depressions in the ocean floor caused by the subduction of one tectonic plate under another.

Faulting

The process by which rocks break and move along a fracture plane in the Earth's crust, often associated with seismic activity.

Earthquake

A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within Earth's crust or volcanic action.

Refracted

A process by which the direction of a wave or ray changes as it passes obliquely from one medium into another in which its speed is different.