There are 8 swimmers competing in a race. Prizes are awarded for the swimmers who finish in first, second, and third. How many different ways can the swimmers finish first, second, and third? (Permutations and Combinations)

Asmall (but heavy) particle placed in a glass of water will follow a zigzag motion because the particle will bounce off of the water molecules it meets. this is called brownian motion. a physicist simulates this on a computer, by varying the distance a particle can travel (called the mean free length), on average, before it collides with a water molecule and assigning the change in motion to be one of 8 directions, each with a similar probability. by running the simulated particle (with the same mean free length) many times she determines that it should take 15 seconds, on average, for the particle to fall to the bottom, with a standard deviation of 1.5 seconds. next she lets a real particle fall through a glass of water and finds that it took 18 seconds. what does she conclude, and why?

Aswimming pool had 2.5 million liters of water in it. some water evaporated, and then the pool only had 22 million liters of water in it. what percent of the water evaporated?

If the discriminant if a quadratic equation is 4 which statement describes the roots?