SOLUTION: 1. In how many ways can 5 questions be selected out of 8 questions?

Question 217737: 1. In how many ways can 5 questions be selected out of 8 questions?
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1. In how many ways can 5 questions be selected out of 8 questions?

Step 1. This is a combination problem where we have the following formula for this problem.

where n! means n factorial or n*(n-1)*....1 and n=8 and x=5 for this example.

Step 2. Then,

Step 3. ANSWER: There are 6720 ways to select 5 out of 8 questions.

I hope the above steps were helpful.

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