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I need help plz..... ☺-example-1
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It's 42, here's a quick trick to do this, so we know there's 7 movies, and to find the combination we know we can't choose 2 of the same movie, so to make this part easier , in your head take one movie from the stack out of the stack now there's 6 movies. It's now just the "plug and play" step , (7)*(6)=(42)
I'm sorry If this is to long of an explanation, but I hope that this helps you understand on how to do this problem. Have a nice day :)
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Use factorials to solve this question.

When you are choosing multiple items out of a set, the permutation formula will be represented by the following:


(n!)/((n-r)!)

n represents the total amount of items, and r represents the number of items you're choosing from the set.

The stack has 7 items, and you are choosing sets of 2 items from the stack. Plug the values into the formula:


\text{n = 7, r = 2}

(7!)/((7-2)!) = (7!)/(5!) = \boxed{42}

There will be 42 different combinations to choose from.
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