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There are
720
ways to arrange SIX books on a bookshelf!
Ouch! That's a LOT!
So, how did I figure it
out?
I sure didn't draw them
all... I would have made a mistake trying to do it that
way and it would have taken a LONG TIME!
Here's how I did it:
I filled one spot
at a time...
Here are the
books:

We have 6 choices
for the first spot... We can choose
book A, book B,
book C, book
D, book E or
book F:

Let's put
book C there:

Book C is gone, so we have 5
choices left for the second spot... We can choose
book A, book
B, book D,
book E or
book F:

Let's put
book A there:

Book C and
book A are gone, so we have 4 choices left for the third
spot... We can choose book B,
book D, book
E or book F:

Let's put
book E there:

We have 3 choices
for the fourth spot... We can choose
book B, book
D or book F:

Let's put
book B there:

We have 2 choices
for the fifth spot... We can choose
book D or
book F:

Let's put
book F there:

We have 1 choice
for the sixth spot... We can choose
book D:


Now, we just
multiply!

That's 720
Whew!
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