A disc jockey wants to select 4 songs from a new cd that contains 12 songs. How many ways can the disc jockey choose four songs?

Question

asked Oct 4, 2019 203k views

2 Answers

Alois Mahdal · Answer 1 · 2019-10-07T09:07:59+0000

Answer:

The answer is NOT 495 WAYS (for when choosing 5) !!!! The CORRECT answer is 792!!!!!

>>>495 may be the answer "when choosing (four)"

UPDATE: This is the answer for when "choosing FIVE" not FOUR.

Dewald Abrie · Answer 2 · 2019-10-09T19:08:47+0000

I suppose a DJ wants to select 4 different songs, then there are: 12*11*10*9 = 11880 ways to choose them.

If the order of the songs he plays doesn't matter, there are:
(12 * 11 * 10 *9 )/(4!) = 495 ways to choose them.