Suppose you find seven articles related to the topic of your research paper. In how many ways can you choose five articles to read?

Verified Answer :

I believe the answer would be 35 ways.

\(21\) ways

Permutation and Combination

  • The permutation is the number of possible arrangements that can be constructed by selecting \(r\) items from a set of \(n\) items.
  • The number of possible groups of \(r\) objects each that can be selected from the available \(n\) objects is the combination.

Total number of articles \(=7\)

Number of articles selected \(=5\)

So,

Number of ways five articles are selected out of seven articles \(=\binom{7}{5}\)

                                                                                                  \(=\frac{7!}{5!(7-5)!}\\=\frac{7\times 6}{2}\\=\boldsymbol{21}\)

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