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Question from Erin, a student: You have enough money to buy 4 books at the book fair. There are 6 books to choose from. How many different combinations are there. |
Hello,
The number of possible combinations is given by:
In general, the number of combinations of size r from a collection of size n is given by:
Tyler
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