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melissadymond melissadymond
  • 03-10-2016
  • Mathematics
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a basketball team has 9 players, in how many different ways can the coach select 2 players to be the captains for tonight's game.

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irspow
irspow irspow
  • 15-05-2017

Since order does not matter, you use the "n choose k" formula for unique combinations...

c=n!/(k!(n-k)!), n=number of elements to choose from, k=number of choices.

In this case n=9 and k=2 so

c=9!/(2!*7!)

c=36

There are 36 unique ways to pick 2 captains from 9 players.

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kmdhuggins kmdhuggins
  • 15-05-2017

Since the order doesn't matter 36 is the answer

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