Question

In how many ways can $5$ prizes be distributed among four students when every student can take one or more prizes?

• A. 1024
• B. 624
• C. 120
• D. 600

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

From the problem, each prize can be distributed to anyone of those four students.
So, we may say required number of ways $=4^5=2^{10}=1024$