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Eight dogs are in a pen when the owner comes to walk some of them. The 26 Apr 2017, 09:08
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Eight dogs are in a pen when the owner comes to walk some of them. The owner lets six dogs out of the pen one at a time. How many different variations in the group of dogs he takes walking are possible?

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D. 1,680
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Eight dogs are in a pen when the owner comes to walk some of them. The 26 Apr 2017, 10:35
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I think the OA should be E 8*7*6*5*4*3 ? Where am I missing something ?
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Eight dogs are in a pen when the owner comes to walk some of them. The 18 May 2017, 03:26
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Eight dogs are in a pen when the owner comes to walk some of them. The owner lets six dogs out of the pen one at a time. How many different variations in the group of dogs he takes walking are possible?

A. 28
B. 56
C. 560
D. 1,680
E. 6,720

I think the OA should be E 8*7*6*5*4*3 ? Where am I missing something ?
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Notice that we are asked about the number of groups, so we are not interested in the different arrangements within each group. Thus, the answer is simply \(C^6_8=\frac{8!}{(8-6)!*6!}=28\).

Answer: A.

Moreover, even if it were how many arrangements of 6 dogs are possible (for example the way we have HERE), the answer then would be \(C^6_8*6!=\frac{8!}{2!6!}*6!=28*6!\) or simply \(P^6_8=\frac{8!}{(8-6)!}\).

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Eight dogs are in a pen when the owner comes to walk some of them. The owner lets six dogs out of the pen one at a time. How many different variations in the group of dogs he takes walking are possible?

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Since we are talking about different variations in the group of dogs ..
So such combination can be formed in \(8C6\) = 8*7/2 = 28 ways..

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Eight dogs are in a pen when the owner comes to walk some of them. The 18 May 2017, 09:40
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Eight dogs are in a pen when the owner comes to walk some of them. The owner lets six dogs out of the pen one at a time. How many different variations in the group of dogs he takes walking are possible?

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E. 6,720
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\(8C_6 = 28\)

Answer must be (A)
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Eight dogs are in a pen when the owner comes to walk some of them. The owner lets six dogs out of the pen one at a time. How many different variations in the group of dogs he takes walking are possible?

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B. 56
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D. 1,680
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We need to determine how many ways the owner can select 6 dogs from 8. The order within the group of the 6 dogs he selects doesn’t matter, so the number of ways he can select 6 dogs from 8 is 8C6:

8C6 = 8!/[(8-6)! x 6!] = (8 x 7)/2! = 4 x 7 = 28

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