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Hi can anyone help me out?

Say i have to select a group of 2 students from 3 students ,so no of ways of doing it will be:
say A,B,C are students then
AB,BC,CA(since BA same as AB so not considered)
now if if go by combinations
3c1*2c1=6 ways
now here i divide by 2!
but i donot understand why are we diving by 2! as it is combinations only not permumations.please guide
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Hi can anyone help me out?

Say i have to select a group of 2 students from 3 students ,so no of ways of doing it will be:
say A,B,C are students then
AB,BC,CA(since BA same as AB so not considered)
now if if go by combinations
3c1*2c1=6 ways
now here i divide by 2!
but i donot understand why are we diving by 2! as it is combinations only not permumations.please guide
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Choosing 2 out of 3, when the order does not matter, would simply be 3C2 = 3.

If you do 3 options for the first slot multiplied by 2 options for the second slot, then the result must be divided by 2!, to get rid of the duplication. Because 3*2 gives AB (selecting A for the first slot and B for the second slot) as well as BA (selecting B for the first slot and A for the second slot).
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Hi can anyone help me out?

Say i have to select a group of 2 students from 3 students ,so no of ways of doing it will be:
say A,B,C are students then
AB,BC,CA(since BA same as AB so not considered)
now if if go by combinations
3c1*2c1=6 ways
now here i divide by 2!
but i donot understand why are we diving by 2! as it is combinations only not permumations.please guide
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Choosing 2 out of 3, when the order does not matter, would simply be 3C2 = 3.

If you do 3 options for the first slot multiplied by 2 options for the second slot, then the result must be divided by 2!, to get rid of the duplication. Because 3*2 gives AB (selecting A for the first slot and B for the second slot) as well as BA (selecting B for the first slot and A for the second slot).
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thanks i understood but my qsn is
say i have 8 pairs of siblings and i have to form a group whcich contains 4 kids but no siblings together?
so here i will selct 16c1 * 14c1*12c1*14c1 so this is my all combinations
now i have to divide by 4! too .But why?
its not permuation,so why are we dividing
any how we are jus selecting not arramnging using 16c1 * 14c1*12c1*14c1
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Bunuel THanks a lot, now I understood clearly..
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its not permuation,so why are we dividing
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When something is a permutation, you never divide. If you're solving a permutation question, you're putting things in order: "In how many different orders can Amir, Betty and Carlos line up at a ticket window?" is a permutation problem. The answer is 3*2*1 = 6 (we do not divide by anything).

You only divide when the order of things does not matter. In general, if the order of k things doesn't matter, you can count by first pretending order does matter, then dividing by k! at the end. So in your siblings question, the order of the four siblings we choose does not matter -- we aren't picking, say, a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. Because the order of our 4 selections does not matter, we can first pretend it does -- we have 16 choices for the first sibling, 14 for the next, 12 for the next and 10 for the final one, so (16)(14)(12)(10) choices in total -- but we then need to divide by 4!, because the order of the four siblings is not supposed to be important.
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When something is a permutation, you never divide. If you're solving a permutation question, you're putting things in order: "In how many different orders can Amir, Betty and Carlos line up at a ticket window?" is a permutation problem. The answer is 3*2*1 = 6 (we do not divide by anything).

You only divide when the order of things does not matter. In general, if the order of k things doesn't matter, you can count by first pretending order does matter, then dividing by k! at the end. So in your siblings question, the order of the four siblings we choose does not matter -- we aren't picking, say, a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. Because the order of our 4 selections does not matter, we can first pretend it does -- we have 16 choices for the first sibling, 14 for the next, 12 for the next and 10 for the final one, so (16)(14)(12)(10) choices in total -- but we then need to divide by 4!, because the order of the four siblings is not supposed to be important.
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IanStewart Great explanation..!

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