A club of nine people wants to choose a board of three officers. A president, a vice president, and a secretary. How many ways are there to choose the board from the nine people? Now, we're going to assume that one person can't hold more than one office. That if I'm picked for president, that I'm no longer a valid person for vice president or secretary. So let's just think about the three different positions. So you have the president, you have the vice president, VP, and then you have the secretary.