How would you explain to a nonmath student a younger sibling

How would you explain to a non-math student (a younger sibling or parent for example) what the difference is between a permutation and combination? Provide an example that would help clarify the difference between the two.

Solution

Non -math student

Let us take a case that you are going to party and u have 5 jeans and 4 shirts and 2 shoes

for a dress to be complete u need one jeans , one shirt and one shoe

so u select one from each and wear provided all are matching so this is slection basically combination

Let us take another case In the hall at your home u have a sofa a table and a chair and there are six members in your family and there are three places in hall where all three can be kept so 6 members will have six different coices

1 2 3

s t c

s c t

c s t

c t s

t c s

t s c

so in this ways arrangement can be done that is permutation