In an 8-woman race, gold, silver and bronze medals are to be given to the first, second, and third place finishers. assuming no ties, in how many ways can these medals be awarded?

a. 9 ways
b. 24 ways
c. 336 ways
d. 40,320 ways

First work with stencil one. use a combination of reflections, rotations, and translations to see whether stencil one will overlap with the original pattern. list the sequence of rigid transformations you used in your attempt, noting the type of transformation, the direction, the coordinates, and the displacement in