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A meeting has to be conducted with 5 managers. Find the number of ways in which the managers be selected from among 9 managers, if 2 managers will not attend the meeting together?

A. 35
B. 91
C. 120
D. 126
E. 150
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02 May 2012, 23:03
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A meeting has to be conducted with 5 managers. Find the number of ways in which the managers be selected from among 9 managers, if 2 managers will not attend the meeting together?

A. 35
B. 91
C. 120
D. 126
E. 150

$$C^5_9-C^2_2*C^3_7=91$$, where:
$$C^5_9$$ is the total # of ways to choose 5 people out of 9 without any restriction;
$$C^2_2*C^3_7$$ is the # of ways to choose 2 managers who will not attend the meeting together and other 3 managers out 7 left (restriction).

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03 May 2012, 05:01
Could someone explain to me what $$C^5_9$$ is? I'm not familiar with anything that takes this form.

I got the right answer by doing 5! (5x4x3x2) and then knowing it had to be less than that because of the restriction but I don't understand what this solution means to do for getting the exact answer.
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03 May 2012, 11:19
DriftingAway wrote:
Could someone explain to me what $$C^5_9$$ is? I'm not familiar with anything that takes this form.

I got the right answer by doing 5! (5x4x3x2) and then knowing it had to be less than that because of the restriction but I don't understand what this solution means to do for getting the exact answer.

$$C^5_9=\frac{9!}{(9-5)!*5!}=\frac{9!}{4!*5!}$$ is the # of ways to choose 5 items out of 9 distinct items when the order of the selection does not matter.

Check this for more: math-combinatorics-87345.html

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i did this the other way around

we can either choose all 5 people from 7 manager who have no problems or choose 4 from the 7 and 1 from the 2 managers who have a problem sitting together

so 7C5 + (7C4 * 2C1)

this is 21 + 70

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