SOLUTION: A high school graduating class has 400 members. The principal must select 3 of these students to attend the annual state student conference. How many ways can this be done?

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Question 1169741: A high school graduating class has 400 members. The principal must select 3
of these students to attend the annual state student conference. How many ways
can this be done?

Answer by ikleyn(52777) About Me  (Show Source):
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     C%5B400%5D%5E3 = %28400%2A399%2A398%29%2F%281%2A2%2A3%29.


The number of combinations of 400 members taken 3 at a time.

MEMORIZE  the formula and the  MANTRA  (!)

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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".


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