Question

In how many ways can a committee of 6 people be chosen from a pool of 50 employees?

Answer 1

Notice that in this case, we want to combine 50 employees for a committee of 6 people. Since the order in which an employee does not matter, we have the following:

`(50\cdot49\cdot48\cdot47\cdot46\cdot45)/(6!)=15,890,700`

therefore, there are 15,890,700 ways in the committee could be selected