[Math] Probability with colored flags

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A signal has $6$ flags, each flag can be blue, white or red.
Possible signals formed is $n^r = 3^6 = 729$ possible signals formed

How many different signal can be made from $6$ flags of which $3$ are white, $2$ are red and $1$ is blue?

Order does matter – so permutation
is this a case of $3! \cdot 2! \cdot 1!$ so $6 \cdot 2 \cdot 1 = 12$ ways? I'm not sure if this is right …

Best Answer

Out of the six flags, there are $\binom{6}{3} = 20$ ways to choose which flags are going to be white. Now out of the remaining three flags, pick which one is going to be blue, and the remaining two will automatically be red.