SOLUTION: You are buying a flower arrangement. The florist has 12 types of flowers, and 6 types of vases. If you can afford exacltly 3 types of flowers and need only 1 vase, how many diffe

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: You are buying a flower arrangement. The florist has 12 types of flowers, and 6 types of vases. If you can afford exacltly 3 types of flowers and need only 1 vase, how many different arrangements can you buy? This question is from textbook algebra 2

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You can select 3 distinct flowers from 12 in
12! / (3!)(9!) = 220 ways ----- A
With 1 vase you can have a combination of 220 flowers. Thus in 6 vases you can have 6 * 220 = 1320 combinations.