SOLUTION: Hi can you please help me with this question (its to do with arrangments/combinations): A student representative committee of 5 is to be chosen from 4 males and 6 females. How m

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Question 1111646: Hi can you please help me with this question (its to do with arrangments/combinations):
A student representative committee of 5 is to be chosen from 4 males and 6 females. How many committees could be selected which contain more females than males?
Thankyou.

Answer by ikleyn(52778)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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There are 3 possible configurations:


    1.  3 females and 2 males;


    2.  4 females and 1 male;


    3.  5 females (and 0 males).


In case 1  the number of combinations is   ..


In case 2  the number of combinations is   ..


In case 3  the number of combinations is   ..


Now your task is calculate each of the 3 numbers and then calculate their sum.




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In this case, refer to the problem ID number, which is  1111646.

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On Combinations,  see the lessons
    - Introduction to Combinations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
    - Problems on Combinations
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on Permutations and Combinations
in this site.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
    - ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic  "Combinatorics: Combinations and permutations".


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