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Satish is making school spirit keychains, which consist of a sequence of n beads on a string. He has blue beads and gold beads. How many unique keychains can he make with exactly k ≤ n blue beads?

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Answer:


(n!)/(k!(n-k)!)

Explanation:

Satish is making school spirit key chains, which consist of a sequence of n beads, that are blue and golden.

Also given, there are k ≤ n blue beads.

So, the number of unique key chains that can be made is :


(n!)/(k!(n-k)!) ;
k\leq n

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