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by maihuna » Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:05 am
A man has 8 different bachelor friends, and he wishes to invite four of them to dinner on successive evenings as long as he can have a different selection each time. For how many of such parties each of the eight friends are from one of the party.

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90
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by real2008 » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:18 am
it is 35
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by maihuna » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:23 am
real2008 wrote:it is 35
how...
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Re: Permo Combo continues 4

by real2008 » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:47 am
maihuna wrote:A man has 8 different bachelor friends, and he wishes to invite four of them to dinner on successive evenings as long as he can have a different selection each time. For how many of such parties each of the eight friends are from one of the party.

25
35
70
85
90
from above-mentioned parties each of eight friends will be there- ---that means concerned person is available in the party. so we need to choose another three persons from the rest of seven persons. this can be done by 1 x 7C3 ways i.e. 35ways
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