SOLUTION: My local shop has six different varieties of fruit including apples and pears and has more than ten items of each variety in stock. (a) In how many ways can I buy a bag of ten ite

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Question 970855: My local shop has six different varieties of fruit including apples and pears and has more than ten items of each variety in stock.
(a) In how many ways can I buy a bag of ten items of fruit?
(b) In how many ways can I buy a bag of ten items of fruit including at least one apple and at least two pears

Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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This is not clear to me. There are six different items of fruit (apples and pears I assume are examples), but how many pieces of fruit are in a bag? How many pieces of a specific fruit are allowed? More than 10 items of each variety? A lot more? (that means it wouldn't make a difference overall, and we are essentially sampling with replacement) A few more? Then we are sampling without replacement, which is different.