Question

Consider a bag of jelly beans that has 30 red, 30 blue, and 30 green jelly beans. a) How many color combinations of 15 beans have at least 6 green beans

Answer 1

Answer:

680

Step-by-step explanation:

Number of red beans = 30

Number of Blue beans = 30

Number of green beans = 30

How many color combinations of 15 beans have at least 6 green beans?

Since at least 6 of the beans must be green,

Then (15 - 6) = 9

Then, the remaining 9 could be either red, blue or green.

Therefore, C(9 + (9 - 1), 3)

C(17, 3) = 17C3

nCr = n! ÷ (n-r)! r!

17C3 = 17! ÷ (17 - 3)! 3!

17C3 = 17! ÷ 14!3!

17C3 = (17 * 16 * 15) / (3 * 2)

17C3 = 4080 / 6

17C3 = 680 ways