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Question 670152: Two committees, one with six and one with seven people, are to be selected from a group of eighteen people, with no one person serving on both committees at the same time. In how many ways can this be done?
This is what I got:
18C6= 18,564
12C7= 792
(18C6)*(12C7)= 14,702,688

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