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    A teacher is making a multiple choice quiz. She wants to give each student the same questions, but have each student's questions appear in a different order. If there are twenty-seven students in the class, what is the least number of questions the quiz must contain?

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    If there were two questions on the quiz, we could prepare two quizzes with the questions in different order -- 2! = 2.
    If there were three questions, we could get 3! = 6 different orders.
    If there were four questions, we could get 4! = 24 different orders -- not quite enough for the class of 27 students.
    If there were five questions, we could get 5! = 120 different orders - which is enough for 27 students.
    The teacher will need at least 5 questions on the quiz.

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