BIRLA company has four empty trucks that will head out in the morning, all four to the same destination. The clerk has four different boxes to ship to that same destination. All four boxes could go on any one of the trucks, or the boxes could be split up into any groupings and given to the trucks in any combinations (ie. two to one truck, one to another, and one to another). In how many different ways could the boxes be put on the four trucks?
Choose one.
A) 16	B) 64	C) 256	D) 576	E) 4096
MAGOOSHOFFICIAL SOLUTION:   BIRLA company has four empty trucks that will head out in the morning, all four to the same destination. The clerk has four different boxes to ship to that same destination.Where we put one box has absolutely no bearing on where we put any of the other boxes. The placement of the four boxes is completely independent of one another. For each box, we have four choices.   N = 4*4*4*4 = 16*16= 
<gadget id="calculator">16*16</gadget>
<output>256</output>
256   Answer= (256)
<result>C</result>
BIRLA company has four empty trucks that will head out in the morning, all four to the same destination. The clerk has four different boxes to ship to that same destination. All four boxes could go on any one of the trucks, or the boxes could be split up into any groupings and given to the trucks in any combinations (ie. two to one truck, one to another, and one to another). In how many different ways could the boxes be put on the four trucks?