The Crafty Clay Art Show has invited Sofia to make and sell her famous decorative plates. She molds the plates out of clay and then paints them. There is a proportional relationship between the number of plates Sofia makes, x, and the amount of clay she uses (in pounds), y.

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step-by-step explanation:

a - base

b - exponent

so,

might be the correct answer will be question number 2

there is only one way to arrange all the eight relative to each other because they are not distinct. we have

now there are nine places to place an (and not more than one in one place).   because we have four symbols, we need to choose four of these nine places to insert an . order does not matter because the are not distinct.

thus there are 1 · c(9,4) ways, or, if we calculate it,

thus there are 126 ways to form such "words."