SOLUTION: How many ways can three people be selected from a group of seven? Is that a combination or permutation?

SOLUTION: How many ways can three people be selected from a group of seven? Is that a combination or permutation?

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Question 592850: How many ways can three people be selected from a group of seven? Is that a combination or permutation?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It's a combination if order doesn't matter. If order does matter, then it's a permutation.

I'm going to assume that order doesn't matter.

If that's the case, then there are $_7C_3 = \frac{7!}{3!(7-3)!} = 35$ different ways.
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