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A basketball team has 12 players. In how many different ways can the coach select 2 players to be the captains for tonight's game?
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A basketball team has 12 players. In how many different ways can the coach select 2 players to be the captains for tonight's game?

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The correct answer to this question is 66
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12*11=132 combinations.

So he can pick any of 12 players as the first captain and he can pick any of the 11 remaining players to be the second captain.
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