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Statistical Sets: # of ways for choosing 3 of 10 people 
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Statistical Sets: # of ways for choosing 3 of 10 people
by corpuschristi on Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:25 pm
If you have 10 people and have to choose three people. How many different groups of three can you make? How do you compute this number?
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Re: Statistical Sets: # of ways for choosing 3 of 10 people 
by maggiemagnet on Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:36 am
Use the "m, choose n" formula: mCn = m!/((m-n)!n!). For this one, m=10 and n=3.
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