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How many groups of four shirts can you choose from six shirts?

Determine if the word problem is a permutation or a combination, then evaluate.

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Answer:

When choosing the shirts it doesn't matter what order they're chosen in because at the end you'll have the same four shirts ... so it's a combinations question (rather than a permutations question where the order of choice makes a difference)

so number of groups = 6C4 = 15

another way is to evaluate 6P4 / 4! = 360/24 = 15

Step-by-step explanation:

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I am pretty sure this is combination, 
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