SOLUTION: Please help me with this, There are 11 members on the schools fencing team, how many ways can you choose a 5 person team from them?

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Question 401116: Please help me with this,
There are 11 members on the schools fencing team, how many ways can you choose a 5 person team from them?
Answer by Tatiana_Stebko(1539) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In this problem will use a combination
A combination is a way of selecting several things out of a larger group, where (unlike permutations) order does not matter. If the set has n elements the number of k-combinations is equal to the binomial coefficient
n%21%2F%28k%21%28n-k%29%21%29, when n%21=1%2A2%2A3%2A...n
n=11, k=5
11%21%2F%285%21%2811-5%29%21%29=11%21%2F%285%216%21%29,
11%21=6%21%2A7%2A8%2A9%2A10%2A11
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There are 462 ways we can choose a 5 person team from 11