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With a short time remaining in the day a delivery driver has time to make deliveries at 5 locations among 6 locations remaining. Hours many different routes are possible?

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Answer:

The delivery driver can make deliveries at 5 locations among the remaining 6 locations using 6 different routes.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the number of different routes the delivery driver can take to make deliveries at 5 locations among the remaining 6 locations, we can use the combination formula:

nCr = n! / r!(n-r)!

where n is the total number of locations, r is the number of locations the driver will visit, and ! denotes the factorial operation (e.g. 5! = 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1).

In this case, we have:

n = 6 (the total number of locations)

r = 5 (the number of locations the driver will visit)

So, the number of different routes the driver can take is:

6C5 = 6! / 5!(6-5)! = 6

Therefore, the delivery driver can make deliveries at 5 locations among the remaining 6 locations using 6 different routes.

Combination formula:

The combination formula is used to calculate the number of ways we can select r items from a set of n items without regard to order. We use this formula when we want to count how many different groups of r items can be selected from a larger set of n items.

The formula is:

nCr = n! / r!(n-r)!

where:

n is the total number of items in the set

r is the number of items we want to select from the set

! denotes the factorial operation, which means we multiply all the whole numbers from 1 up to the given number.

Let's look at an example to see how it works.

Example:

Suppose we have a box of 10 colored balls: 4 red, 3 blue, and 3 green. We want to select 2 balls from the box, without regard to the order in which they are selected. How many different combinations of 2 balls can we choose?

Using the combination formula, we have:

n = 10 (the total number of balls)

r = 2 (the number of balls we want to select)

10C2 = 10! / 2!(10-2)! = (10 x 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1) / (2 x 1 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1) = 45

Therefore, there are 45 different combinations of 2 balls that can be selected from the box of 10 colored balls.

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