How many possible ways to vote?

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There are 8 judges.
People can vote for 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 people.
How many ways can a person vote?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-21T00:21:51

163 ways.

There is #1# way to vote for 0 people.

There are #8# ways to vote for 1 person.

There are #(8*7)/2# ways to vote for 2 people.

There are #(8*7*6)/(2*3)# ways to vote for 3 people.

There are #(8*7*6*5)/(2*3*4)# ways to vote for 4 people.

This is all because you can choose people but there are ways you can order the people. For example, there are #2*3# ways to order the same 3 people.

Adding everything, we get #1+8+28+56+70=163#.