SOLUTION: In a lottery daily game, a player picks three numbers from 0 to 9. How many different choices does the player have if order doesn’t matter?

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Question 1116691: In a lottery daily game, a player picks three numbers from 0 to 9. How many different choices does the player have if order doesn’t matter?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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The player can select 3 numbers from 10 by  C%5B10%5D%5E3 = %2810%2A9%2A8%29%2F%281%2A2%2A3%29 = 120 ways.


Since the order does not matter, it is about Combinations.

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On Combinations,  see the lessons
    - Introduction to Combinations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
    - Problems on Combinations
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on Permutations and Combinations
in this site.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
    - ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic  "Combinatorics: Combinations and permutations".


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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II
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