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
John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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