SOLUTION: Four accounting majors,two economics majors,and three marketing majors have interviewed for five different positions with a large company. Find the number of different ways that fi

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Question 1179119: Four accounting majors,two economics majors,and three marketing majors have interviewed for five different positions with a large company. Find the number of different ways that five of these could be hired.One accounting major, one economics major, and one marketing major would be hired, then the two remaining positions would be filled by any of the majors left.
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Choose 1 of the 4 accounting majors, 1 of the 2 economics majors, and 1 of the 3 marketing majors; then choose 2 of the remaining 6:

C(4,1)*C(2,1)*C(3,1)*C(6,2)

You can do the easy calculations.