Question

Determine whether the situation involves a permutation or a combination, and how many possibilities are there are?

A team of six students is chosen from a class of 36.

Answer 1

This situation involves a combination as the team will be the same no matter what order the students are chosen in.

There are 1402410240 possibilities for the six student team

Explanation:

Each time a student is chosen, they cannot be chosen again, so the number of available students decreases each time that one is chosen.

`36*35*34*33*32*31=1402410240`