REALLY NEED HELP PLEASE Decide if the situation involves permutations, combinations, or neither. Explain your reasoning.

The number of ways in which 10 contestants in a talent competition can finish

Permutation

Step-by-step explanation:

Permutations are for lists (order matters) and combinations are for groups (order doesn’t matter).

So this would be a permutation because it matters which order the contestants finish.

answer: 100

step-by-step explanation:

the image is given below

since the options are not given so we draw it from the equation

the given equation is

y = (x-1) (x+4)

y = y² + 3x - 4

the above equation is a quadratic equation which will have two roots. if we draw the graph for it, it will look like this