there are 1,320 ways for three students to win first, second, and third place during a debate match. how many students are there on the debate team? explain your reasoning

The number of students is there on the debate team will be given by the permutation formula is 12.
A permutation is an act of arranging the objects or elements in order. Combinations are the way of selecting objects or elements from a group of objects or collections, in such a way the order of the objects does not matter.
There are 1,320 ways for three students to win first, second, and third place during a debate match.
Then the number of the students are there on the debate team will be given as
Let n be the number of the student, then we have
[tex]\begin{aligned} ^nP_3 &= 1320\\\\\dfrac{n!}{(n-3)!} &= (12)(11)(10)\\\\n (n-1)(n-2) &= (12)(12-1)(12-2)\\\\n &= 12 \end{aligned}[/tex]
Then the number of the student will be 12
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