Question

How many ways are there to assign three jobs to 4 employees?

Answer 1

Answer:

125. Each job can be given to any of the 5 employees. 5*5*5 = 125

Answer 2

Answer:

$4c3 = \frac{4 \times 3 \times 2 \times 1}{3 \times 2 \times 1 } = 4$