SOLUTION: there are 16 girls and 20 boys in a class .A team of 2 students is to be selected for preparing a science project from this class .How many ways a pair of a boy and a girl can be s

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Question 499070: there are 16 girls and 20 boys in a class .A team of 2 students is to be selected for preparing a science project from this class .How many ways a pair of a boy and a girl can be selected from this class?
Found 2 solutions by chessace, suren:
Answer by chessace(471) About Me  (Show Source):
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16 * 20 = 320 ways.

Answer by suren(2) About Me  (Show Source):
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we have 16 Girls and 20 Boys,so we randomly select a boy and a girl from both party.
it would be 16C1*20C1=320 means we have 320 combinations of pairs.