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  • Nov 12, 2006, 01:11 AM
    shirleydmil
    Combinations
    How many different combination of 13 objects can you have?
  • Nov 13, 2006, 12:41 AM
    Capuchin
    Okay so visualise 1 object, you can have only one combination, obviously.
    For two objects, you can have 2 combinations, either one way round or the other.
    For three objects, you have 6 combinations, for each piece you start with, there are 2 combinations.
    For four objects, there are 24 combinations, for each starting object, there are 6 combinations (as there are 3 other objects), so total = 4x6

    you can continue this logic as far as you want, as long as all the objects are unique. The answer for n objects is 1x2x3x4... xn.

    Hope this helps :)
  • Nov 16, 2006, 04:01 PM
    worthbeads
    13! (or 13 factorial) In other words, 13*12*11*10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1

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