SOLUTION: There are 9 players on a volleyball team. Only 6 players can play at one time. The players are going to pick the team randomly. How many combinations of 6 player teams can be chose

Question 717822: There are 9 players on a volleyball team. Only 6 players can play at one time. The players are going to pick the team randomly. How many combinations of 6 player teams can be chosen?

Answer by jsmallt9(3758) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This problem, in mathematical terms, is: How many combinations are possible when selecting 6 out of 9. The formula for this is:

where n! is read "n factorial" and means 1 * 2 * 3 * ... * n

Now we simplify:

84

So there are 84 different groups of 6 which can be chosen from a group of 9 players.
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