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Question 1185833: In a shipment of 22 smart phones, three are defective. How many ways can a quality control inspector randomly test six smart phones, of which three are defective?
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Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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In a shipment of 22 smart phones, three are defective. How many ways can a quality control inspector randomly test six smart phones, of which three are defective?
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The 1st pick is 1 of 22, then 1 of 21, etc
---> 22*21*20*19*18*17 = 53721360
But, there are 6*5*4*3*2*1 = 720 ways to select the 6.
53721360/720 = 74613 ways
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Don't try this at home.

Answer by ikleyn(52786) About Me  (Show Source):
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In a shipment of 22 smart phones, three are defective.
How many ways can a quality control inspector randomly test six smart phones,
of which three are defective?
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They want you calculate the number of different sextuplets (subsets of 6 smartphones)
that contain that three defective smartphones.


Then, it is obvious, that the number of such sextuplets is equal to the number of different TRIPLETS
that you can select from 22-3 = 19 good smartphones to add them to that unique triple of
defective smartphones.


Finally,  C%5B19%5D%5E3 = %2819%2A18%2A17%29%2F%281%2A2%2A3%29 = 969  is your  ANSWER.

Solved and thoroughly explained.