document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1206958>Question 1206958</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> How many ways can a committee of 6 people from a group of 10 people be chosen along with a committee president and a secretary? </SPAN>\n" );
document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #844709 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=ikleyn><B>ikleyn(52781)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=ikleyn><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/cgi-bin/show-face.mpl?user=ikleyn><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=844709\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> .\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "How this problem is worded, it is not a right style mathematical writing.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Right style mathematical writing DOES NOT ALLOW different interpretations and/or ambiguity.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Simply the author/composer is unfamiliar with a proper Math style writing.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "One more quasi-writer came to teach quasi-students.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I insistently recommend to the managers of this project to REMOVE this writer<BR>\n" );
document.write( "IMMEDIATELY from his/her position in the project due to his/her illiteracy in Math.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It is extremely important to do it without delay in order for<BR>\n" );
document.write( "this writer does not disgrace your esteemed organization.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I got your comment, very long.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "You write that the difficulties are/were with English.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "But it is not so. The difficulties are not in English.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "One wise person said once, that often, when somebody fails to express accurately his/her thoughts in English,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "it is because he/she can not express his/her thoughts accurately in his/her native language.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "As it is worded in the post, the problem, obviously, has two different interpretations.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "No one is better than the other - they both have equal rights to exist - but it is the duty of the creator<BR>\n" );
document.write( "to formulate precisely what he/she wants.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "How it is worded in your original post, it is NOT a style writing Math.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "It is the style of writing of a person whose Math education is from reading puzzles.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "I mean \"bad style puzzles\", whose goal is not to teach a reader (it is the goal of Math), but to confuse, instead.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Writing Math problem is an art, in some sense, and all classic Math problems are pieces of art.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "No one excessive word; everything is clear; all the words are in their right places and in the right order.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "These are the rules of Math writing, and every Math magazine follows these rules.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "In my life, I read thousand of articles and hundreds of book in English and in my native language,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "and these rules were mandatory everywhere. By the way - not only in Math.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The same rules work in Mechanics, Physics, Engineering, and in Science, in general.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I also wrote about 50 articles in Math and Engineering magazines, and thanks to their editors<BR>\n" );
document.write( "(I mean people, not the computer tools), they touched me these rules.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Here, at this forum, we expect that the visitors bring their problems edited enough<BR>\n" );
document.write( "from textbook or responsible professors. Our goal here is to teach students<BR>\n" );
document.write( "in solving their Math problems, not in composing or writing Math problems.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Skills writing Math are developed for years, and it is not our/tutors' goal here to teach visitors writing Math.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Nevertheless, in many cases I work episodically as an editor here at the forum and help visitors to edit their posts.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "But in many cases, I see that the major goal of visitors (in hidden form) is to have me <BR>\n" );
document.write( "to edit for them (or even to write for them). When it's rushing in bulk, it causes my outrage, <BR>\n" );
document.write( "because editing for visitors is not my duty at this forum.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Teaching Math writing is nobody's duty except of professional editors;<BR>\n" );
document.write( "and learning of Math writing is the duty of authors - not other third parties.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "And the last instruction: the only method to learn writing Math is reading Math from good sources.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So read as much as you can - it is the only hope that you will be able write Math somewhen.\r<BR>\n" );
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