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4 September, 09:56

Mulder will read the files on ninenine unsolved cases from a list of fourteenfourteen. He does not care about the order in which he reads the files.

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  1. 4 September, 13:31
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    Since the order of the selection of files does not matter, this is the concept of combination not permutation.

    therefore suppose we want the combination of 5 files that can be selected from 14. This will be given by:

    14C5

    = (14!) / (9!3!)

    =2002

    We therefore conclude that there are 2002 ways that 5 files can be selected from 14 files;
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