SOLUTION: A teacher has asked 15 studentsto come out , 6 of them assigned to do math,5 of them assigned to do chinese,4 of them assigned to do english. how many ways can the assignment be ma
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Question 412393: A teacher has asked 15 studentsto come out , 6 of them assigned to do math,5 of them assigned to do chinese,4 of them assigned to do english. how many ways can the assignment be made? Found 2 solutions by tallgirl84, sudhanshu_kmr:Answer by tallgirl84(3) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 6=120
Or you can branch it out. Star with 6 long branches, then have 5 medium branches off each of the 6, then 4 smaller branches off each of the 5 mediums.
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
no. of ways = 15C6 * 9C5 *4C4
= 630630
this problem is just like dividing 15 persons in 3 different groups having 6,5
and 4 capacity.