Question

Suppose you have a very large bin of white marbles (so large that you can assume you have an infinite supply) and an equally large bin of blue marbles, of red marbles and of green marbles. Now suppose that you intend to package marbles in bags of 17. How many distinguishable collections of marbles could be in the bags

Answer 1

`\left \{ {{20} \atop {3}} }.`

Explanation:

supply = Infinite

supposing you intend to package the marbles in bags of 17

Determine the number of distinguishable collections of marbles that could be in the bags

Given that ; n = 17 , K = 4

The distinguishable collections =
`\left \{ {{20} \atop {3}} }.`

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