SOLUTION: There are 40 students taking Alg2 next year. I will have 24 kids in 2nd period Alg2 How many different combinations of students could I have in period 2? How would you solve thi

Question 1158960: There are 40 students taking Alg2 next year. I will have 24 kids in 2nd period Alg2 How many different combinations of students could I have in period 2? How would you solve this problem?
Answer by ikleyn(52777) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The number of different combinations is the number of combinations of 40 students taken 24 at a time.


This number is   =  = 62852101650.    ANSWER


By the way, this number is of the same order of the magnitude, as the number of stars in our Galaxy, Milky Way.

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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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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II
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