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Old 05-12-2005, 01:45 AM
BruceZ BruceZ is offline
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Default Re: General Probabilty Questions

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the responses to both questions were exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot. I am not sure if I understand this whole C(10,5) concept. It appears to have something to do with factorials. Is there a button for "C" on a calculator. I am a little unclear of what "C" actually is.

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Number of combinations of 5 things chosen out of 10 things or "10 choose 5". It is equal to 10!/5!/(10-5)! You may have a C(x,y) button on your calculator, or !, or you can type "10 choose 5" into google (without the quotes), or use the COMBIN function in Excel.
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