If you have 30 students in your class and you want to know how many groups of 5 people you could make.

Would this be considered a permutation or a combination?

Well, it is complicated because I've never studied that in math. I searched up the definitions of both in math and they're very similar. Permutation is a one of many possible variations and can change. A combination is the process of joining to things to be one. So if I had to choose I think I'd go with permutation since it isn't asking you to list all the ways you can make groups out of the number 30.