Teresa has 4 flowers, 4 designs. How many ways can she display/mix them up.

Thank you ....but 4x4 seems too simple.
If I line up abcd, bcda,cdab, etc......
(Naming each design abcd) ??? is it possibley more?

I thought it was a problem like four blouses and four skirts. Take one each, and it will be a simple solution like 4*4.

If it is more complicated, you'll need to give more information (take one at a time, two, ...)

To determine the number of ways Teresa can display or mix up her 4 flowers with 4 designs, we can use the concept of permutations. A permutation represents an arrangement of objects in a specific order.

In this scenario, Teresa has 4 flowers and 4 designs. Since each flower can have any of the 4 designs, we can consider this as a permutation with repetition. To calculate the number of permutations, we need to raise the number of designs to the power of the number of flowers.

In this case, Teresa has 4 choices for design for each of the 4 flowers. So, we calculate it as 4^4.

4^4 = 4 × 4 × 4 × 4 = 256

Therefore, Teresa can display or mix up her flowers in 256 different ways if she has 4 flowers and 4 designs.