SOLUTION: A basketball team has 5 players. Find the number of different basketball teams that can be formed from a group of 12 students?
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Question 308072: A basketball team has 5 players. Find the number of different basketball teams that can be formed from a group of 12 students?
Answer by rapaljer(4671) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is a combination, in which you are choosing 5 out of 12 players. The number of combinations is c(12,5) = . I used a calculator to do this directly, and it came out 792.
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