SOLUTION: How many different seven-person committees can be formed each containing 3 women from an available set of 20 women and 4 men from an available set of 30 men?

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Question 1171713: How many different seven-person committees can be formed each containing 3 women from an available set of 20 women and 4 men from an available set of 30 men?
Answer by ikleyn(52776) About Me  (Show Source):
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    C%5B20%5D%5E3.C%5B30%5D%5E4  different committees.

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This problem is on COMBINATIONS.

On Combinations,  see introductory 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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