SOLUTION: A club has 14 members. It has to send a delegation of 5 members to represent them at particular event. Find the number of possible delegations.

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Question 1172206: A club has 14 members. It has to send a delegation of 5 members to represent them at particular event. Find the number of possible delegations.
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This problem is on COMBINATIONS.

A TWIN to two previously solved problems.

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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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