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# A city council will select 2 of 9 available firefighters and

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A city council will select 2 of 9 available firefighters and 1 of 6 available police officers to serve on an advisory panel. How many different groups of 3 could serve on the panel?

A. 36
B. 72
C. 144
D. 216
E. 432
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27 May 2012, 22:39
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9C2 * 6C1

using the combination formula to choose 2 from 9 and 1 from 6
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28 May 2012, 01:04
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A city council will select 2 of 9 available firefighters and 1 of 6 available police officers to serve on an advisory panel. How many different groups of 3 could serve on the panel?

A. 36
B. 72
C. 144
D. 216
E. 432

Ways to select 2 firefighters out of 9 is $$C^2_9=36$$;
Ways to select 1 police officer out of 6 is $$C^1_6=6$$;

Total ways to select 2 firefighters out of 9 and 1 police officer out of 6 is 36*6=216.

It's called Principle of Multiplication: if one event can occur in m ways and a second can occur independently of the first in n ways, then the two events can occur in m*n ways.

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07 Sep 2013, 23:09
The "how many different groups of 3" threw me at first, I thought I needed to exclude something, or say something like "we got 15 in total, so 5 groups of 3..." and so some calculations there.

Can someone please explain to me, in which case we would have divided the product of the two combinations by the total people selected out of the population? i.e. 15C5
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08 Sep 2013, 04:00
Skag55 wrote:
The "how many different groups of 3" threw me at first, I thought I needed to exclude something, or say something like "we got 15 in total, so 5 groups of 3..." and so some calculations there.

Can someone please explain to me, in which case we would have divided the product of the two combinations by the total people selected out of the population? i.e. 15C5

We would divide by 15C3 if the question were: what is the probability that when we select 3 people out of 9 firefighters and 6 police officers we get 2 firefighters and 1 police officer.
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08 Sep 2013, 09:30
Great, many thanks!
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