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At a certain laboratory, chemical substances are identifies [#permalink] New post 31 Jan 2008, 23:03
At a certain laboratory, chemical substances are identifies by an unordered combination of 3 colors. If no chemical may be assigned the same 3 colors, what is the maximum number of substances that can be identified using 7 colors?

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Re: combs color coding [#permalink] New post 01 Feb 2008, 11:29
Concur using anagram:

7*6*5*4*3*2*1 (Order does not matter)
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7!/(3!4!)
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Re: combs color coding [#permalink] New post 01 Feb 2008, 14:42
marcodonzelli wrote:
At a certain laboratory, chemical substances are identifies by an unordered combination of 3 colors. If no chemical may be assigned the same 3 colors, what is the maximum number of substances that can be identified using 7 colors?

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7!/3!4! b/c lets say we have color ABC BCA is the same thing (order does not matter)

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