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Procedural Steps for Combinations and Permutations

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1) How many different ways can a teacher select 2 books from a possible 17 books?
2) How many different ways can be made from a test bank of 20 questions if the test consists of 5 questions?
3) How many different ways can 4 tickets be selected from 50 tickets if each tickets wins a different prize?

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This provides three examples of working with combinations and permutations.

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These are examples of permutations and combinations problems.
The problems can be solved in two ways depending on the assumptions.

Assumption 1 below is an example of a combination.
For example how many different committees of three students can be chosen from a group of 10?
Therefore,
10!
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3!7!
which ...

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