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In how many ways can 3 different books be distributed to 4 different people, if each person can receive any number of books (including 0)?

 

Option: 1

64
 


Option: 2

81


Option: 3

144

 


Option: 4

169


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Since each person can receive any number of books (including 0), we can use the multiplication principle to solve this problem. 

For each book, we have 4 choices of people to give it to, and there are 3 books in total. 

Thus, the total number of ways to distribute 3 different books to 4 different people is given by,

4^{3}=4\times 4\times 4

4^{3}=64

Therefore, the number of ways the books are distributed is 64.

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