Question 972587
A party of 6 is to be formed from 10 men and 7 women so as to include 3 men and
3 women. in how many ways the party can be formed if two particular women
refuse to join it?
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Then those 2 women are totally out of the picture, so we just ignore them and
rewrite the problem without them, and include only the 5 other women:
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A party of 6 is to be formed from 10 men and 5 women so as to include 3 men and
3 women. In how many ways the party can be formed?
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We choose the men:

10 men Choose 3 = 10C3 = {{{(10*9*8)/(3*2*1)}}} = 120 ways.

For each of those 120 ways to choose the men,

we choose the women:

5 women Choose 3 = 5C3 = {{{(5*4*3)/(3*2*1)}}} = 10 ways.

That's (120)(10) = 1200 ways.

[Note: I'm puzzled as to why a problem would bother just to exclude 2 women.
Are you sure that the problem didn't say that they despise each other and that
either one can be invited but not both?  That would change the answer.]

Edwin</pre>