SOLUTION: a group of students want to start a club there are 20 people present at the first meeting: 14 girls and 6 boys 4 people need to be chosen to lead the club, in how many ways can the
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Question 216343: a group of students want to start a club there are 20 people present at the first meeting: 14 girls and 6 boys 4 people need to be chosen to lead the club, in how many ways can the leaders be chosen if the people present decide that two of the leaders must be male and 2 must be female
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a group of students want to start a club there are 20 people present at the first meeting: 14 girls and 6 boys 4 people need to be chosen to lead the club, in how many ways can the leaders be chosen if the people present decide that two of the leaders must be male and 2 must be female
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# of ways = 14C2 * 6C2 = [14*13/1*2] * [6*5/1*2] = 91*15 = 1365
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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