SOLUTION: I have 4 boxes and a pile of 200 hundred items each box can hold one item how many possible combinations is there. whats the formal to figure this out?

SOLUTION: I have 4 boxes and a pile of 200 hundred items each box can hold one item how many possible combinations is there. whats the formal to figure this out?

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Question 935489: I have 4 boxes and a pile of 200 hundred items each box can hold one item how many possible combinations is there. whats the formal to figure this out?
Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
you are looking for the combination of 200 items taken 4 at a time.
C = 200! / (4!*(200-4)!) = (200*199*198*197) / 24 = 64684950
there are 64,684,950 possible combinations

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