There are 3/4 as many boys as girls in a class of fifth graders. If there are 35 students in the class, how many are girls?
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Me must do "10 combine 7" which is written by the binomial coefficient
; in general a binomial coefficient is written by:
In which
and 
are positive integers, such that 
.
So, for this problem:
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Me must do "10 combine 7" which is written by the binomial coefficient
In which
So, for this problem:
Hence, there are 120 different ways to make the fruit salad.