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Sylvia is at an ice cream parlor that has 20 different flavors of ice cream. she is going to have a bowl of ice cream with two scoops. how many different ways can the scoops be chosen? state whether question permutations or combination.

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It's a permutation question, Order does not matter.

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Most people will try and tell you that the answer is 20 * 19. That would make a pure pure permutation question. The problem is that the actual answer is 20 * 20 because she can have 2 scoops are the same. I would still answer permutation but be prepared to get it incorrect.

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