In my textbook MP is strictly reserved to counting lists. Does what I do below to count subsets work

Peyton Velez

Peyton Velez

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2022-06-24

In my textbook MP is strictly reserved to counting lists. Does what I do below to count subsets work?
Consider 3 men(Ace, Bob, Corry) and 3 women(Ann, Beth, Candace). Suppose we need to choose a team with 2 men and 2 women in it. An example team is { Ace, Ann, Beth, Bob } which is the union of { Ace, Bob } { Beth, Ann } . So we simply count 2−lists whose first element is a set of two men and whose second element is a set of two women. We get the same number of 2−lists if their first element is a set of two women. There are ( 3 2 ) = 8 two-men subsets and that many two-women subsets. So there are 8 choices for the first element and 8 choices for the second one. In all there are 8 2 = ( 3 2 ) 2 = 64 two element lists = teams with two men and two women in each.

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Marlee Guerra

Marlee Guerra

Beginner2022-06-25Added 25 answers

it's all good except ( 3 2 ) = 3 (not 8) so the true answer should be 9.

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