SOLUTION: A company is considering bids submitted by seven
different firms for three different contracts. In how many ways
can the contracts be awarded among the firms if no firm is to
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Question 631247: A company is considering bids submitted by seven
different firms for three different contracts. In how many ways
can the contracts be awarded among the firms if no firm is to
receive more than two contracts? Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There are 7 ways to award each contract.
That gives you a total of ways of awarding them.
Included in those ways there are 7 ways to award all 3 contracts to the same firm.
Since we do not want to give all 3 contracts to the same firm, we subtract those 7 choices from the total to find ways to award the contract so that no firm
receives more than two contracts.
