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What would we need to use to find the number of ways we could pick 3 toppings for a pizza given 10 choices?


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00:02

Okay sy match members last section in this lovely exam

00:06

Ok well here we go What would we need to

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use to find the number of ways we could pick

00:10

three toppings for a pizza given ten choices Yeah all

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right Well when we're picking a smaller group from a

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larger one like the three toppings we want from that

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ten topping choices were often trying to determine how many

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ways we can pick the smaller group The issue we

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have to deal with before we can find the actual

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different number of ways to choose our smaller group is

00:36

whether the order we choose the items in the smaller

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group matters like think about it If you were picking

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from a deck of cards the size of that debt

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goes from fifty two to fifty one fifty forty nine

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so the odds then change on the margin each time

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you make a pick So if the order we picked

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the items in this problem in the smaller group matters

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will end up with loads more options than we will

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then if the order doesn't matter if order does matter

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like we chose pepperoni green olives and pineapple as our

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three well we can also choose green olives pepperoni and

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pineapple or pineapple green olives and pepperoni And so on

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each of those different ordering sze of the same three

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ingredients would be a whole new option We call these

01:19

permutations the shortcut simple is npr where n is the

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size of the large group and our is the size

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of the smaller group and p is well just probability

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of what's going on there If order doesn't matter well

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then we just get the one option with those three

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toppings To get a new option we'd need to toss

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out a topping the pineapple get rid of that on

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a pizza what they're doing and replace it with something

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else like black olives Yeah we call these combinations The

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shortcut symbol is n c r where ends the size

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of the large group and ours the size of the

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small group it's pretty clear order doesn't matter in this

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case as it doesn't matter if we choose pepperoni before

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green olives or after they all end up in the

02:01

same slice and you know in the same place since

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this is a combination will need the symbol ten c

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three to represent all of our different three items pizzas

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so that's it that's the answer at sea Ten c

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three

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