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In how many ways can a person send letters to 10 different person. If the letters distributed by three different postmen? 

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Each of the 10 letters can be delivered by any one of the 3 different postmen.
So for every letter, there are 3 choices.
Using the multiplication principle:

$$
\begin{gathered}
3 \times 3 \times 3 \times \cdots(10 \text { times }) \\
=3^{10} \\
=59049
\end{gathered}
$$

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