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15 basketball players are to be drafted by 3 professional teams (A,B,C). Each team
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document.write( "We can choose 5 players for team A in any of 15 ways. That's 15C5 = 3003 ways.\r\n" );
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document.write( "We can then choose 5 players for team B in any of the remaining 10 ways. That's\r\n" );
document.write( "10C5 = 252 ways.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The remaining 5 players will automatically go to team C.  That's 5C5 = 1 way.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer 15C5*10C5*5C5 = 3003*252*1 = 756756\r\n" );
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