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Thursday, 13 February 2014

Discussing orderless choice of two items from n items

Orderless choice of 2 objects from n objects

We know that the number of ways of choosing two items from n items is given by nC2
We can look at the choice problem as in the diagram below.
Each node in the tree is representative of a choice of two items. Therefore total number of choices is equal to the number of nodes in the above tree. Total number of nodes is
1+2+3+4......(n1) = n(n1)2 = nC2
Similar analysis and derivation could be done for nC3 and nCr



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