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From a group of eight people how many different committees 08 Aug 2003, 01:07
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From a group of eight people how many different committees of four or five people each can be arranged?



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From a group of eight people how many different committees 08 Aug 2003, 08:33
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Committee of four: 8C4 = 70
Committee of five: 8C5 = 56

Then four or five would be 70 + 56 = 126
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From a group of eight people how many different committees 12 Feb 2004, 20:20
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Shouln't the answer be 8C4 * 2 + 8C5 ?

The question is asking for number of committees Not the number of ways to form the committees

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From a group of eight people how many different committees 12 Feb 2004, 21:09
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Shouln't the answer be 8C4 * 2 + 8C5 ?

The question is asking for number of committees Not the number of ways to form the committees

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Could you explain the reason for multiplying by 2?
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From a group of eight people how many different committees 13 Feb 2004, 02:39
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Why not 350? 8C4=70, choose one more from the rest 4 to form a five member committee or 70x4=280-5 member committees and 70-4 memeber or 350 in total.
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From a group of eight people how many different committees 13 Feb 2004, 07:55
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Shouln't the answer be 8C4 * 2 + 8C5 ?

The question is asking for number of committees Not the number of ways to form the committees

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Could you explain the reason for multiplying by 2?


That was my mistake!! We do not need to multiply by 2.

I overthought the problem. I thought that the question is asking for number of committees Not the number of ways to form the committees

So I thought when we select any 4 people out of 8 to form a commitee, we are basically creating 2 committees. 4 selected people and 4 remaining. So we need to multiply 8C4 by 2. But I now know that 8C4 will cover all the remaining people as well.

So no need to multiply by 2.



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