SOLUTION: You volunteer to help drive children at a charity event to the​ zoo, but you can fit only 6 of the 14 children present in your van. How many different groups of 6 children can yo

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Question 1159619: You volunteer to help drive children at a charity event to the​ zoo, but you can fit only 6 of the 14 children present in your van. How many different groups of 6 children can you​ drive?
How many different groups of 6 children can you​ drive?

Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The number of different 6-children  groups of 14 children is   =  = 3003.    ANSWER

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This problem is on 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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