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Question 935489: I have 4 boxes and a pile of 200 hundred items each box can hold one item how many possible combinations is there. whats the formal to figure this out?
Answer by rothauserc(4718) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
you are looking for the combination of 200 items taken 4 at a time.
C = 200! / (4!*(200-4)!) = (200*199*198*197) / 24 = 64684950
there are 64,684,950 possible combinations