four city commissioners can be selected from a group of thirteen candidates in how many different ways

Question

An election ballot asks voters to select four city commissioners from a group of thirteen candidates. in how many ways can this be done?

Answer 1

That would be the permutation question! The permutation form is looks like this: nPr  In this question, n is the total number of candidates, which is 13. and r is the number of candidates we want to select, which is 4. Therefore, we use the formulas or calculator and then the result is 17160