Provide an Appropriate Response

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-Consider the following counting problem. Eight women and seven men are waiting in line at a movie theater. How many ways are there to arrange these 15 people amongst themselves such that
The eight women occupy the first eight places and the seven men the last seven places?
To solve this problem, which of the following rules would you use?

A) The permutations rule only
B) The fundamental counting principle only
C) Both the permutations rule and the fundamental counting principle
D) Both the combinations rule and the fundamental counting principle