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There is a group of five people from which a committee will be made.
How many ways can we pick a three-person committee?
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There is a group of five people from which a committee will be made.
How many ways can we pick a three-person committee?
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Question 1139405: I have a statistics question. Please help. Thanks.
There is a group of five people from which a committee will be made.
How many ways can we pick a three-person committee? Found 2 solutions by algebrahouse.com, ikleyn:Answer by algebrahouse.com(1659) (Show Source):
Grab a scientific calculator and locate the permutations and combinations button.
It might be labeled nPr and nCr.
You want to use nCr for combinations.
You are choosing 5....3 at a time.
So, type in 5C3
The number of ways is the number of combinations of 5 items taken 3 at a time
= = = 10.
ANSWER. There are 10 ways to form a committee of free from the group of 5 people.
