You and your mom are entering a drawing with three different prizes. The prizes are awarded at random. If a total of 8 people enter the drawing in how many ways can you win first prize and your mom win second

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Precious Hays

27 July, 00:29

You and your mom are entering a drawing with three different prizes. The prizes are awarded at random. If a total of 8 people enter the drawing in how many ways can you win first prize and your mom win second

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Erika Cross · Answer 1

The answer is 6.

Melvin Alvarado · Answer 2

The number of ways can you win first prize and your mom win second is 1/56 ways.

Step-by-step explanation:

Total number of people entered the contest = 8 people

Total number of prices awarded=3 prizes

Therefore the total number of ways in which 3 prizes can be awarded = 8*7*6 = 336 ways

The number of ways in which you can win first prize and your monm can win the second prize is = 1*1*6 = 6 ways

So, by probability to find the ways with which you can win the first prize and mom can win the second prize can be calculated as = 6/336 = 1/56