SOLUTION: A teacher must choose 6 out of her class of 30 students to take part in a mathematics competition. In how many ways may these 6 students be chosen?
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Question 1116360: A teacher must choose 6 out of her class of 30 students to take part in a mathematics competition. In how many ways may these 6 students be chosen?
Answer by ikleyn(52818) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In = = = 593775 ways.
It is about Combinations.
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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