How many subsets of five elements can be formed from

madridomot

madridomot

Answered question

2022-05-21

How many subsets of five elements can be formed from a set of 80 elements?

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dariajoq9

dariajoq9

Beginner2022-05-22Added 14 answers

Step 1
If we were to pick the 5 elements one at a time, then there would be 80 ways to pick the first, 79 to pick the second, 78 to pick the third, 77 to pick the fourth and 76 to pick the fifth.
That is: 80 P 5 = 80 ! ( 80 - 5 ) ! = 80 ! 75 ! = 80 79 78 77 76
Step 2
But the order in which we pick a particular subset does not matter, so we can divide this value by the number of ways of ordering 5 items, that is 5!, to get:
80 C 5 = 80 ! 75 ! 5 ! = 80 79 78 77 76 5 4 3 2 1 = 24040016

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