SOLUTION: A display manager wished to place four different colors of a style of women’s spring dresses in a display window. If there are eight colors from which to choose, how many ways c

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Question 1149436: A display manager wished to place four different colors of a style of women’s spring dresses in a display window. If there are eight colors from which to choose, how many ways can four different colors be combined?
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In  C%5B8%5D%5E4 = %288%2A7%2A6%2A5%29%2F%284%2A3%2A2%2A1%29 = 70 ways.


It is about COMBINATIONS.

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On Combinations,  see introductory 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".


Save the link to this textbook together with its description

Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/complex/ALGEBRA-II-YOUR-ONLINE-TEXTBOOK.lesson

into your archive and use when it is needed.