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document.write( "Student should select five questions to answer, but of these five questions, two of them,\r\n" );
document.write( "the first and the last questions, are obligatory: they are not the subject of choice.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It means that the student really selects only 5-2 = 3 questions from 9-2 = 7 questions.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The number of way to select 3 questions from 7 questions is  \r\n" );
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document.write( "     =  = 35.\r\n" );
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document.write( "ANSWER. In 35 ways.\r\n" );
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