Question:

From a class of 25 students, 10 are to be chosen for an excursion party. There are 3 students who decide that either all of them will join or none of them will join. In how many ways can the excursion party be chosen?

Updated On: Oct 21, 2023
Hide Solution
collegedunia
Verified By Collegedunia

Solution and Explanation

From the class of 25 students, 10 are to be chosen for an excursion party. 
Since there are 3 students who decide that either all of them will join or none of them will join, there are two cases. 

Case I: All the three students join. 
Then, the remaining 7 students can be chosen from the remaining 22 students in \(^{22}C_7\) ways. 

Case II: None of the three students join. 
Then, 10 students can be chosen from the remaining 22 students in \(^{22}C_{10}\) ways.
Thus, required number of ways of choosing the excursion party is \(^{22}C_7+^{22}C_{10}.\)

Was this answer helpful?
0
0

Top Questions on permutations and combinations

View More Questions

Concepts Used:

Permutations and Combinations

Permutation:

Permutation is the method or the act of arranging members of a set into an order or a sequence. 

  • In the process of rearranging the numbers, subsets of sets are created to determine all possible arrangement sequences of a single data point. 
  • A permutation is used in many events of daily life. It is used for a list of data where the data order matters.

Combination:

Combination is the method of forming subsets by selecting data from a larger set in a way that the selection order does not matter.

  • Combination refers to the combination of about n things taken k at a time without any repetition.
  • The combination is used for a group of data where the order of data does not matter.