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Find the number of ways to take 4 people and place them in groups of 3 at a time where order does not matter.

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Final answer:

To find the number of ways to place 4 people into groups of 3 without regards to order, the combination formula C(4, 3) is used, resulting in 4 possible combinations.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question asks to find the number of ways to take 4 people and place them in groups of 3 where order does not matter. This is a problem of combinations where we use the formula for combinations without repetition:

C(n, k) = n! / (k! * (n - k)!).

Using this formula for our specific scenario:

n = 4 (the total number of people), and

k = 3 (the size of each group)

C(4, 3) = 4! / (3! * (4 - 3)!).
This simplifies to:

C(4, 3) = (4 * 3 * 2 * 1) / ((3 * 2 * 1) * (1)) = 4.

Therefore, there are 4 ways to group 4 people into groups of 3 where order does not matter.

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