SOLUTION: A committee of 5 is to be selected from a group of 21 people. How many different committees are possible, given the following conditions? b. One person is the chair and the re

Question 403254: A committee of 5 is to be selected from a group of 21 people. How many different committees are possible, given the following conditions?

b. One person is the chair and the rest are general members.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A committee of 5 is to be selected from a group of 21 people.
How many different committees are possible, given the following conditions?
b. One person is the chair and the rest are general members.
# of ways to pick the chairman: 21
# of ways to pick the remaining 4 people: 20C4
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Total # of different committees: 21*20C4 = 101,745
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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