SOLUTION: ICE CREAM TRIPLE SCOOPER A true triple – scooper of ice cream is three scoops, each of different flavours, served in a dish. How many different triples could you get at ice cast

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Question 631248: ICE CREAM TRIPLE SCOOPER
A true triple – scooper of ice cream is three scoops, each of
different flavours, served in a dish. How many different triples
could you get at ice castles if ice castles serve 31 different
flavours of ice cream?

Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


The number of combinations of 31 things take 3 at a time:

is the number of combinations of things taken at a time and is calculated by

Plug in the numbers and do the arithmetic.

Note: This only works because of the requirement that the flavors be different. If duplication of flavors were allowed, then the considerably larger number of possibilities would be calculated by

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