SOLUTION: Please help. Grace is making party favor bags for her daughter's fifth birthday party. She has the following favors available: pencils, erasers, bubble gum, stickers, lollipops,

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Question 1101313: Please help.
Grace is making party favor bags for her daughter's fifth birthday party. She has the following favors available: pencils, erasers, bubble gum, stickers, lollipops, and notepads. If she wishes to put three different favors in a bag, in how many ways can she fill the bag?
Answer by ikleyn(52848) About Me  (Show Source):
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Grace has 6 favors and want to select 3 of them.


She can do it in  C%5B6%5D%5E3 = %286%2A5%2A4%29%2F%281%2A2%2A3%29 = 20 ways.

C%5B6%5D%5E3 is the number of combinations of 6 item taken 3 at a time.

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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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