SOLUTION: A psychological study of outstanding salesperson is to be made. If 5 salespeople are needed and 12 are qualified, in how many ways can the 5 be selected?
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Question 1178928: A psychological study of outstanding salesperson is to be made. If 5 salespeople are needed and 12 are qualified, in how many ways can the 5 be selected?
Answer by ikleyn(52778) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In ways.
You do your own arithmetic.
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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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