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  • Nov 14, 2011, 06:47 AM
    Nawaryi
    From 6 biologists and 7 chemists a committee of 3 biologists and 3 chemists are to be
    From 6 biologists and 7 chemists a committee of 3 biologists and 3 chemists are to be formed. How many committee can be formed if no restrictions are imposed?
    a) 20
    b) 35
    c) 700
    d) 25,200
    e) none of the choices.
  • Nov 14, 2011, 07:19 AM
    ebaines
    Are you familiar with combinations? If you have a group of A objects (or people as in this case) you can select B of them in C(A,B) ways, where



    So for example for committee of 3 people from a pool of 8 can be selected is:


    ways.

    So for your problem use combinations to figure out how many different ways the biologists can be selected and multiply by how many different ways the chemists can be selected.

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