In the student council elections, there are 5 candidates running for president and 5 candidates running for vice-president. How many different combinations of president and vice-president are possible?
each president can have a possibility of the 5 so.. I'm going to say 25... 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 just for president candidate number 1 there are 5 possibilities so you multiply that by 5...
There are 25 combinations but look at it this way. The 5 candidates for president are A, B, C, D, E then the vice president candidates are 1,2,3,4,5 see how many vice presidents A can have, then multiply by a number of presidents.
