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Saylor

Are you sure the answer is 19. We didn't have 6 distinct balls.
We two type of three balls. Then the combination must be much
smaller than 19.

I don't have mathametical expression for the problem.
But here is my logical explanation.

Following are the possible combinations:
111
110
100
000

Because it is combinaiton problem the oder is not important.
So, 110 and 101 are one at the same.

Thus, the answer is 3!
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N(product is zero)=N(total)-N(product is 1)

N(total)=6C3=20
N(product is 1)=3C3=1

20-1=19

what is wrong? I use combinations. Where order is not important.



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