Distributing 14 baseball cards in one week I am going over the Counting Rule, which is an extremely basic rule in probability.  
Why, then, does applying it to this question seem so counterintuitive?  
"Virginia wants to give her son, Brian, 14 different baseball cards within a 7-day period.  If Virginia gives Brian cards no more than once a day, in how many way can this be done?"  
Standing back and looking at this, I see 3 different numbers -- we have 14 baseball cards, we have 7 days, and "one per day". So we are looking to count combinations, using the Counting Rule. We are counting different sequences we can distribute baseball cards. I see the answer is $ 7^{14}$ but honestly don't get this at all. 
In my mind, I can envision distributing baseball cards across days. But I can't conceptualize what it means to take the days to the power of the cards.

It's not necessarily "one per day". Think of the problem in the way: Each of the baseball cards have 7 ways to be given.
