SOLUTION: Hi, here's the question, "how many ways can 3 student representatives be chosen from 100. Here's my work: 100C3 = 100�99�98�97! / 3! 97! But the answer didn't come ou

Question 483194: Hi, here's the question, "how many ways can 3 student representatives be chosen from 100.
Here's my work: 100C3 = 100�99�98�97! / 3! 97! But the answer didn't come out right
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"how many ways can 3 student representatives be chosen from 100.
Here's my work: 100C3 = 100�99�98�97! / 3! 97! But the answer didn't come out right
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Cancel the 97! in the numerator and the denominator to get:
(100*99*98)/(1*2*3)
= 161,700
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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