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In how many ways can seven vacancies at a company be filled 20 Feb 2005, 06:55
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In how many ways can seven vacancies at a company be filled if there are 20 job applicants, three of the vacancies are identical secretarial positions and the remaining four are identical sales representative positions? Assume that eight of the applicants have applied for the secretarial positions, and the remaining 12 have applied for the sales rep positions.

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In how many ways can seven vacancies at a company be filled 20 Feb 2005, 07:38
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8C3 * 12C4 ??

or am i missing something here..
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In how many ways can seven vacancies at a company be filled 20 Feb 2005, 07:39
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It is a metter of choosing 3 secretaries out of 8 and 4 sales res out of 12

8C3 * 12C4
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In how many ways can seven vacancies at a company be filled 20 Feb 2005, 09:11
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8C3 * 12C4.....if the positions were not identical then we can't use this logic, then there will be more ways to choose.
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In how many ways can seven vacancies at a company be filled 21 Feb 2005, 08:09
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yeah

3 sec and 4 sales out of 8 and 1 apps resp

8C3*12C4
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In how many ways can seven vacancies at a company be filled 14 Mar 2005, 12:15
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12c4*8c3 here too
but what if the question asked either 4 positions of sales and 3 of secret. OR 3 positions of sales and 4 of secret.
would that be
12c4*8c3+12c3*8c4?
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In how many ways can seven vacancies at a company be filled 14 Mar 2005, 21:41
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I found the same result : 8C3 * 12C4

Arsene_Wenger please confirm the OA
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In how many ways can seven vacancies at a company be filled 01 May 2005, 13:03
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8C3 * 12C4.....if the positions were not identical then we can't use this logic, then there will be more ways to choose.
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can anybody pls explain the difference between identical and non-identical?
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In how many ways can seven vacancies at a company be filled 01 May 2005, 13:42
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8C3 * 12C4.....if the positions were not identical then we can't use this logic, then there will be more ways to choose.

can anybody pls explain the difference between identical and non-identical?
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idetical=combination
non-idetical=permutation



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