SOLUTION: A company is looking to hire 5 people for identical positions. If there are 10 men and 8 women being interviewed, in how many ways can 2 men and 3 women be chosen?

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Question 1153203: A company is looking to hire 5 people for identical positions. If there are 10 men and 8 women being interviewed, in how many ways can 2 men and 3 women be chosen?
Answer by ikleyn(52779)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In  . = . ways.


Here the symbol means the number of COMBINATIONS of "n" items taken "k" at a time.

Use your calculator.


This problem is about COMBINATIONS.

On Combinations,  see introductory lessons
    - Introduction to Combinations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
    - Problems on Combinations
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on Permutations and 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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