4 actors: how many different assignments possible?

[RockerChick]

Exactly 4 actors try out for 4 parts in a play. If each actor can perform any one part and no one will perform more than one part, how many different assignments of actors are possible?

4 actors, 4 parts
1st actor can try 4
2nd can try 4
3rd can try 4
4th can try 4

Is it 4(4) or is it 4 to the 4th power?
Please advise if i'm totally off or on the right track

 

[Mrspi]

Re: 4 actors..please help on my posts!

Exactly 4 actors try out for 4 parts in a play. If each actor can perform any one part and no one will perform more than one part,
how many different assignments of actors are possible?

4 actors, 4 parts
1st actor can try 4
2nd can try 4
3rd can try 4
4th can try 4

Is it 4(4) or is it 4 to the 4th power?
Please advise if i'm totally off or on the right track

You can pick from any of the 4 actors for the first role.

Now, when you go to the second role, there are only 3 actors left to choose from.

After picking actors for the first two roles, there will be just 2 left to choose from for the third role.

Once you have filled the first three roles, there's just ONE actor left to fill the fourth role.

Number of ways to fill all roles = ways to pick first role * ways to pick second role * ways to pick third role * ways to pick fourth role

See what you get. If you still have questions, please repost showing ALL of the work you have done.

I've seen lots of questions from you, but absolutely no work.

 

[stapel]

I've seen lots of questions from you, but absolutely no work.

It appears that, after "Sarah2391" was called out for this misconduct, she started posting under this other username. Hardly encouraging.... :roll:

Eliz.

 

[RockerChick]

I have all my work in my binder, but i'm not going to go and type it all up when all i want to know is if i'm on the right track
I'm a high school student who has a very successful business and puts on large scale events in LA, sorry that i'm not a math genius

 

[Deleted member 4993]

Exactly 4 actors try out for 4 parts in a play. If each actor can perform any one part and no one will perform more than one part, how many different assignments of actors are possible?

4 actors, 4 parts
1st actor can try 4
2nd can try 4
3rd can try 4
4th can try 4

Is it 4(4) or is it 4 to the 4th power?
Please advise if i'm totally off or on the right track --- totally off the track --- try combination

 

[stapel]

I have all my work in my binder, but i'm not going to go and type it all up when all i want to know is if i'm on the right track

Since you won't show your work, we have no way of knowing whether you are on the right or wrong track. Sorry.

I'm a high school student who has a very successful business and puts on large scale events in LA,

Since minors are not, by law, able to enter into the contractual agreements necessary to run such a business, this would seem unlikely. :roll:

sorry that i'm not a math genius

Whoever told you that only "geniuses" could show their work, or could do middle-school math, or were allowed to post here, has very badly misled you. I apologize for the confusion.

Eliz.

 

[pka]

Why not just ban this person from the site?
I have seen this same screen-name posting the same questions at several other sites. It appears to me that she(?) takes an answer from one to go to another.

 

[Mrspi]

I have all my work in my binder, but i'm not going to go and type it all up when all i want to know is if i'm on the right track
I'm a high school student who has a very successful business and puts on large scale events in LA, sorry that i'm not a math genius

And I'm only a retired math teacher. Now, you want ME (or any of us) to give you detailed answers, but you can't be bothered to show us your work? I'm sorry....