SOLUTION: A Cafeteria offers 10 different vegtables how many 3 plate vegtable combinations can you make I came up with 720 but it says i am wrong. 3,628,800/5040= 720 using permutatio

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Question 831643: A Cafeteria offers 10 different vegtables how many 3 plate vegtable combinations can you make
I came up with 720 but it says i am wrong.
3,628,800/5040= 720 using permutations

Answer by edjones(8007)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is a combination problem.
10C3
=10!/((10-3)!*3!)
=120
.
Ed

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