Question

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

• A. $1024$
• B. $625$
• C. $120$
• D. $600$

Answer 1

The correct option is A $1024$

From the problem, each prize can be distributed to anyone of those four students.

So, we may say required number of ways$=4^5=2^{10}=1024$