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One must divide the number of combinations producing the given result by the total number of possible combinations (for example, () =,,).The numerator equates to the number of ways to select the winning numbers multiplied by the number of ways to select the losing numbers.
The number of k-combinations for all k is the number of subsets of a set of n elements. There are several ways to see that this number is 2 n. In terms of combinations, () =, which is the sum of the nth row (counting from 0) of the binomial coefficients in Pascal's triangle.
The number associated in the combinatorial number system of degree k to a k-combination C is the number of k-combinations strictly less than C in the given ordering. This number can be computed from C = {c k, ..., c 2, c 1} with c k > ... > c 2 > c 1 as follows.
The same argument shows that the number of compositions of n into exactly k parts (a k-composition) is given by the binomial coefficient (). Note that by summing over all possible numbers of parts we recover 2 n−1 as the total number of compositions of n:
A possible set of combinations of boxes for a total of 0 to 59 nuggets. Each triplet denotes the number of boxes of 6 , 9 and 20 , respectively. Thus the largest non–McNugget number is 43. [ 21 ]
For each of the n − 1 hats that P 1 may receive, the number of ways that P 2, ..., P n may all receive hats is the sum of the counts for the two cases. This gives us the solution to the hat-check problem: Stated algebraically, the number ! n of derangements of an n -element set is ! n = ( n − 1 ) ( !
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For any pair of positive integers n and k, the number of k-tuples of positive integers whose sum is n is equal to the number of (k − 1)-element subsets of a set with n − 1 elements. For example, if n = 10 and k = 4, the theorem gives the number of solutions to x 1 + x 2 + x 3 + x 4 = 10 (with x 1, x 2, x 3, x 4 > 0) as the binomial coefficient