SOLUTION: A box contains 8 red balls, 7 blue balls, and 6 orange balls. In how many ways can 6 balls be chosen if there should be 2 balls each color?

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Question 1178309: A box contains 8 red balls, 7 blue balls, and 6 orange balls. In how many ways can 6 balls be chosen if there should be 2 balls each color?
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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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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II
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