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Over the weekend, your family is going on vacation. Your mom is letting you bring 5 DVDs for the long road trip. How many ways can you choose the five DVDs if you have 12 DVDs in all? (order does not matter) O 512 O 792

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Over the weekend, your family is going on vacation.

Your mom is letting you bring 5 DVDs for the long road trip.

How many ways can you choose the five DVDs if you have 12 DVDs in all? (order does not matter)

SOLUTION:

This is a good example of Combination problem:

12 C 5 = 12 ! / ( 5 ! 7 ! ) = 792.

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