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Hi Jean, If you are choosing 5 numbers from 59 numbers and you know that one of them is 23 then you have 58 choices for the remaining 4 numbers. The number of ways of choosing 4 things from 58 things is called 58 choose 4, written $\large 58 \choose 4$ and calculated by \[\frac{58 \times 57 \times 56 \times 55}{4 \times 3 \times 2 \times 1}\] Google will do the arithmetic for you. If you type 58 choose 4 into the Google search window the response is 58 choose 4 = 424 270. Penny | ||||||||||||
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