SOLUTION: a manager wants to assign 20 workers to 4 district construction job. these jobs require 6,4, 3 and 7 workers respectively. in how many different ways can the manager assign the wor
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Question 1080697: a manager wants to assign 20 workers to 4 district construction job. these jobs require 6,4, 3 and 7 workers respectively. in how many different ways can the manager assign the worker ?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The number of different ways = ,
where = is the number of combinations of m items taken n at a time.
On combinations, see the lessons
- Introduction to Combinations
- PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
- Problems on Combinations
in this site.
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Combinatorics: Combinations and permutations".
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