SOLUTION: Every member of the 23 students in the graduating class would like to attend a special leadership conference, but only ten members will be allowed to attend. How many ways are ther

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Question 1180840: Every member of the 23 students in the graduating class would like to attend a special leadership conference, but only ten members will be allowed to attend. How many ways are there to select the lucky 10?
Answer by ikleyn(52804) About Me  (Show Source):
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    There are  C%5B23%5D%5E10 = 1144066 different ways to select these lucky 10 of 23 students.

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This problem is on 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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