SOLUTION: . An economics professor is using a new method to teach a junior-level course with an enrollment of 42 students. The professor wants to conduct in-depth interviews with the stude

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Question 1190724: . An economics professor is using a new method to teach a junior-level course with an enrollment
of 42 students. The professor wants to conduct in-depth interviews with the students to get
feedback on the new teaching method but does not want to interview all 42 of them. The
professor decides to interview a sample of 5 students from the class. How many different samples
are possible?
Answer by ikleyn(52835)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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    There are   =  = 850668  different samples.    ANSWER

Solved.

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This problem is on  COMBINATIONS.


On  Combinations,  see introductory lessons
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    - Problems on Combinations
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