Question

Anita plans to give her husband 3 shirts for his birthday. She narrows the search to 3 shirts from a selection of 17 shirts at Dillon's Store or 3 from a selection of 20 shirts at The Men's Shop. In how many ways can she select the shirts

Answer 1

Using the combination formula, it is found that she can select the shirts in 775,200 ways.

The order in which the shirt are chosen is not important, hence, the combination formula is used to solve this question.

Combination formula:

$C_{n,x}$ is the number of different combinations of x objects from a set of n elements, given by:

$C_{n,x} = \frac{n!}{x!(n-x)!}$

In this problem:

• 3 shirts from a set of 17.

• Then, 3 shirts from a set of 20.

• They are independent, hence, to find the total, we multiply both combinations.

$T = C_{17,3} \times C_{20,3} = \frac{17!}{3!14!} \times \frac{20!}{3!17!} = 680 \times 1140 = 775200$

She can select the shirts in 775,200 ways.

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