Question

Roy and Valerie are playing a game of tic-tac-toe. In how many different ways can the first 4 moves in the game be made? I tried 9P4 (since, I figured the order mattered in tic-tac-toe) but that didn't work. Then I tried 9C4, but that didn't work either.

Answer 1

9*4!

Answer 2

But why?

Answer 3

Actually

Answer 4

That doesn't even work

Answer 5

Since the answer is in the thousands

Answer 6

i would think it would be 9*8*7*6 , which represents the possible choices available at each turn

Answer 7

That works... and that's actually true.

Answer 8

4! = 24, 24 x 9 = 216

Answer 9

then *9

Answer 10

What is that?

Answer 11

start with this if you have four tires for a car how many combinations of placements couldyou have without repeating them

Answer 12

Uh... Idk.... I would think either 16 or 4 or 24. 16 from 4 x 4, 4 from 4P4, and 24 from 4 x 3 x 2 x 1

Answer 13

ACK! 4P4 wouldn't work, I meant 4C4...

Answer 14

Right? x_x

Answer 15

Even that doesn't work, though

Answer 16

yes 4! = 24 so you should be looking for a quite large number since you have 9 spaces not fourfor each move.

Answer 17

if this is the first posiion there are 26 moves just from this position