How do you find the outcomes in part A? I am stuck on how to find them is there

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How do you find the outcomes in part A? I am stuck on how to find them is there a chart or list you make ? help would be appreciated thank you!

Four universities-1, 2, 3, and 4 are participating in a holiday basketball tournament. In the first round, 1 will play 2 and 3 will play 4. Then the two winners will play for the championship, and the two losers will also play. One possi- ble outcome can be denoted by 1324 (1 beats 2 and 3 beats 4 in first-round games, and then 1 beats 3 and 2 beats 4). a. List all outcomes in

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Here all the outcomes possble are:

Ans similarly we have 8 more outcomes in the case when 2 beats 1. Therefore there are a total of 16 outcomes. These would be:

{ 1324, 1342, 3124, 3142, 1423, 1432, 4123, 4132, 2314, 2341, 3214, 3241, 2413, 2431, 4213, 4231 }

These are all the outcomes possible here.

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