SOLUTION: There are 35 students in the high school band. They need to pick four students to represent the band on the school’s Music Committee. How many ways can the 4 students be chosen?

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Question 1171492: There are 35 students in the high school band. They need to pick four students to represent the band on the school’s Music Committee. How many ways can the 4 students be chosen?
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This problem is about COMBINATIONS.

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

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