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John Frank Stevens, William C Gorgas and George Washington Goethals 1914 (opened)The building of the 50-mile-long Panama Canal was a collosal project, joining together the Pacific and Atlantic oceans by digging away 240 million metric tons of earth through the Isthmus of Panama. Almost as big a project was sanitising the area around the canal, which was mosquito infested and home to serious diseases like Malaria and Yellow Fever.
<span> In 1907 President Roosevelt appointed George Washington Goethals, a military engineer, as head of the project, and under his leadership the canal was finally completed in 1914, two years ahead of the 1916 target. Of benefit to the whole world, the achievement of the Panama Canal signalled American dominance in project management and engineering like no other project of the day.</span>

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Explanation:

There are 6 freshmen total and we want to pick 2 of them, where order doesn't matter. The reason it doesn't matter is because each seat on the committee is the same. No member outranks any other. If the positions were labeled "president", "vice president", "secretary", etc, then the order would matter.

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Repeat those steps for the other grade levels.

n = 13 sophomores, r = 5 selections leads to nCr = 13C5 = 1287. This is the number of ways to pick the sophomores.

You would follow the same type of steps shown above to get 1287. Let me know if you need to see these steps.

Similarly, 8C4 = 70 is the number of ways to pick the juniors.

Lastly, 14C3 = 364 is the number of ways to pick the seniors.

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To recap, we have...

15 ways to pick the freshmen
1287 ways to pick the sophomores
70 ways to pick the juniors
364 ways to pick the seniors

Multiply out those values to get to the final answer.

15*1287*70*364 = 491,891,400

This massive number is a little under 492 million.

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