Quick questions on The multiplication principle and ordered selections: counting in stages, n^r with repetition, nPr without repetition, and restriction techniques

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What is ordered selections WITH repetition?

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Now narrow to the most common kind of staged choice: you build an ordered arrangement of

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positions, and at every position you may pick any of the same

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objects, repeats allowed. Because choosing an object never removes it from the pool, every one of the

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boxes keeps all

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choices, and the multiplication principle gives

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