SOLUTION: As a television executive, you have been given 15 shows to choose from to run during your prime time slots each week. If you have to choose 12 shows to run on your network, how man

Question 1153118: As a television executive, you have been given 15 shows to choose from to run during your prime time slots each week. If you have to choose 12 shows to run on your network, how many ways can you choose which shows to pick up?
Answer by ikleyn(52765) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The number of ways to select 12 items from 15 items is


     = .


Use your calculator.

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This problem is about COMBINATIONS.

On Combinations, see introductory 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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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II
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