There are 6 items in column A and 6 items in column B. A student is asked to match each item in column A with an item in column B.
Question:
There are 6 items in column A and 6 items in column B. A student is asked to match each item in column A with an item in column B. How many possible, correct or incorrect, answers are there to this question?
Solution:
Each answer is an arrangement of the 6 items of column B keeping the order of column A fixed.
∴ Total number of answers = Number of arrangements of items in column B = 6P6 = 6! = 720