SOLUTION: The United Way Campaign of Greater Toledo had fifteen applications for funding this year. If eight of these applications can be funded, how many different lists of successful appl

Question 286818: The United Way Campaign of Greater Toledo had fifteen applications for funding this year. If eight of these applications can be funded, how many different lists of successful applications are there?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The United Way Campaign of Greater Toledo had fifteen applications for funding this year. If eight of these applications can be funded, how many different lists of successful applications are there?
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Each set of 8 successful applications is a group.
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Combinations are used to count groups.
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# of groups of size 8 is 15C8 = 6453
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Stan H.
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