Question

Your 3 nieces and 3 nephews (6 children total) are visiting for the holidays. You must give them each a present. They all love legos so you choose to give them each a lego kit. You can select from the following 9 lego kits:airplan, boat, car, dumptruck, elephant, fortress, giraffe, helicopter, igloo.

Answer 1

Answer:

The 6 Lego kits can be selected from the 9 available Lego kits in 84 ways.

Step-by-step explanation:

Use combinations to solve this problem.

Combination is defined as the selection of r elements from n distinct objects irrespective of the order. The objects cannot be replaced.

There are 9 Lego kits available.

And the total number of children is 6.

That is, we need to select 6 Lego kits from the 9 available Lego kits.

6 Lego kits can be selected from the 9 available Lego kits in $9\choose 6$ ways.

Solving the combination as follows:

${9\choose 6}=\frac{9!}{6!\times(9-6)!} \\=\frac{362880}{720\times6}\\ =84$

Thus, there are 84 ways to select 6 Lego kits from 9 available Lego kits.