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    Sep 19, 2012, 06:38 PM
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    A pizza shop offers five different toppings, R, P, 0, M, S for its pizzas. How many different pizzas can be created using three different toppings?
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    Sep 19, 2012, 07:16 PM
    What did you get for the answer?
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    Sep 20, 2012, 05:55 AM
    It won't takle long for you to write out all possible combinations for these 5 toppings taken three at a time. By the way, that's a good hint: "combinations of 5 things 3 at a time" - have you learend about combinations and permutations yet?
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