document.write( "Question 1048588: how many different committees of five from a group of fourteen students can be selected if Qistina and Fahmi insist on serving together or not at all? \n" ); document.write( "
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Group of 14
\n" ); document.write( "Qistina and Fahmi insist on serving together or not at all
\n" ); document.write( "Then 14-2 = 12
\n" ); document.write( "How many groups of 3 can Qistina and Fahmi serve with?
\n" ); document.write( "12C3
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\n" ); document.write( "Because a team that contains both Qistina and Fahmi contains exactly 3 other people from the remaining 12 in the group,
\n" ); document.write( "there are as many such teams as there are subsets of 3 people that can be chosen from the remaining 12.
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