SOLUTION: A restaurant donated 6 identical gift cards to be raffled off at a local charity event. At the charity's fundraising event, 14 people buy a raffle ticket to try to win one of the

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Question 1111682: A restaurant donated 6 identical gift cards to be raffled off at a local charity event. At the charity's fundraising event, 14 people buy a raffle ticket to try to win one of the gift cards, and their raffle tickets are placed into a single can. The raffle organizer then randomly picks 6 tickets from the can to determine the gift card winners. How many possible outcomes are there?
Answer by ikleyn(52776) About Me  (Show Source):
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In  C%5B14%5D%5E6 ways = %2814%2A13%2A12%2A11%2A10%2A9%29%2F%281%2A2%2A3%2A4%2A5%2A6%29 ways = 3003 ways.


It is about COMBINATIONS.

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On Combinations,  see the lessons
    - Introduction to Combinations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
    - Problems on Combinations
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on Permutations and Combinations
in this site.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
    - ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic  "Combinatorics: Combinations and permutations".


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