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Evaluate the following:
 10P4

Answer
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Hint: The given P is represented as the permutation of the given numbers, which is the method of counting the number of ways or arranging the numbers in the sequence.
Since the question is to find the permutation, we are going to use the method of permutation and combination methods which we will be studied on our schools to approach the given questions to find the number of ways since the number of permutations of given r-objects can be founded from among n-things is nprwhere p refers to the permutation. Also, similarly, for combination, we have r-things and among n-things are ncr.
Formula used:
npr=n!(nr)!for permutation method

Complete step by step answer:
Since from given that 10P4 and we need to find its value
Here using the formula, we get n=10,r=4
Thus, substitute these values in the formula we get npr=n!(nr)!10p4=10!(104)!
Using the subtraction operation, we know that 104=6
Thus, we get 10p4=10!6!
Since the terms are in the form of factorial, which can be represented as in the form of n!=n×(n1)×(n2)×...×2×1
Hence the number 10! can be expressed as 10!=10×9×8×7×6×5×4×3×2×1
And the number 6! can be expressed as 6!=6×5×4×3×2×1
Hence substituting these values in the above we get 10p4=10!6!10p4=10×9×8×7×6×5×4×3×2×16×5×4×3×2×1
Using the division operation, cancel the common values we have 10p4=10×9×8×7 because after the number 6 the values are the same and cancel each other.
Hence using the multiplication, we get 10p4=5040 which is the required answer.

Note:
If the question is about the combination like 10C4 then we can also able to simply solve the given using the formula that ncr=n!r!(nr)!
Further solving we get 10c4=10!4!(104)! using the factorial method we have 10c4=10!4!×6!=504024=210
Both the formulas having an only difference in the denominator as r!