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Name: Zahid
Who are you: Student

Hi my name is zahid and i have a question.
How can i find the combinations of 5digits till 50!. Without any repeating numbers.
For e.g 1,2,3,4,5 that's one 7,8,9,10,11 that another one. There might be case of getting 1,45,47,22,7 . How can i find ALL the combinations of 5digits till 50?

Thank you

Zahid,

I can show you how to count how many there are. That should convince you that you don't want to list them all. First you have said combination so I am going to assume that order is not important, that is 1,2,3,4,5 and 2,3,4,5,1 are the same combination.

The number of ways of choosing p things from n things is called n choose p and is given by

You want to choose 5 things from 50 things so that's

If order is important then there are 5! times that many.

Penny

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