Given:
A musician plans to perform 5 selections.
To find the total number of possible ways he can arrange the musical selections:
At the first time, there are 5 possibilities to make the musical selections.
At the second time, there will be 4 possibilities to make the musical selections.
At the third time, there will be 3 possibilities to make the musical selections.
At the fourth time, there will be 2 possibilities to make the musical selections.
At the fifth time, there will be 1 possibility to make the musical selections.
So, we have,
[tex]\begin{gathered} ^5C_1\times^4C_1\times^3C_1\times^2C_1\times^1C_1=5\times4\times3\times2\times1 \\ =120\text{ ways} \end{gathered}[/tex]
Hence, the answer is 120 ways.
