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Permutations and combinations : Example: Ways to arrange colors

Sal Khan, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

Abstract

Basics of probability and combinatorics. If want to display your Chuck Norris dolls on your desk at school and there is only room for five of them. Unfortunately, you own 50. How many ways can you pick the dolls and arrange them on your desk? What if you. Source: Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org), used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. All Khan Academy content is available for free at www.khanacademy.org. Khan Academy does not endorse the World Public Library.

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