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Question 938989: A school needed to pick a team of eleven children for a spelling competition. They had to select five boys and six girls from a total of ten boys and eleven girls. How many different teams could they have chosen? Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A school needed to pick a team of eleven children for a spelling competition. They had to select five boys and six girls from a total of ten boys and eleven girls. How many different teams could they have chosen?
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# of ways to select 5 boys:: 10C5 = 252 groups
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# of ways to select 6 girls:: 11C6 = 462 groups
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Ans: # of possible groups of 11:: 252*462 = 116424 ways
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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