SOLUTION: From a group of 15 women and 12 men, a researcher wants to randomly select 8 women and 8 men for a study. In how many ways can the study group be selected?

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Question 1178636: From a group of 15 women and 12 men, a researcher wants to randomly select 8 women and 8 men for a study. In how many ways can the study group be selected?
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This problem is to use two conceptions of Combinatorics.

One conception is Combinations.
The other conception is the Fundamental counting principle.


Learn about both these conceptions from these introductory lessons,  provided to you in this site
    - Introduction to Combinations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
    - Problems on Combinations
    - Fundamental counting principle problems
    - 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
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