A software company is hiring for two positions: a software developer and a sales operations manager. How many ways can these positions be filled if there are 17 people applying for the developer position and 15 people for the sales position?

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Alan P.
Jan 9, 2016

#255# (assuming no-one applies for both positions)

Explanation:

For each of the #17# choices for the developer position there are #15# choices for the sales position.

Therefore the total number of possible combinations is #17xx15=255#

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