SOLUTION: At a baby shower 17 guests are in attendance and 5 of them are randomly selected to receive a door prize. If all 5 prizes are identical, in how many ways can the prizes be awarded

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In   =  = 6188 ways.


Since the prizes are identical, the order of selection and awarding does not matter,

so we have Combinations.