SOLUTION: A committee contains 9 women and 6 men. If we choose three random people for a subcommittee, how many ways could we choose exactly 1 woman? Here's my work: # ways to pick 1 wom

Question 530188: A committee contains 9 women and 6 men. If we choose three random people for a subcommittee, how many ways could we choose exactly 1 woman?
Here's my work: # ways to pick 1 woman: 9C1 = 9
# ways to pick 2 men: 6C2 = 15
Answer: 135 ways to choose exactly 1 woman
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
That looks good to me.
Cheers,
Stan H.
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Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You are correct, congrats. This is of course assuming that order does not matter.
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