There are 24 parents and 8 teachers at a PTO meeting.They are breaking into discussion groups that have 6parents and 2 teachers. How many different groupscan be made?

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Answer:

3,768,688 different ways

Explanation:

The number of ways to select x elements from a group of n elements is calculated as

[tex]\text{nCx}=\frac{n!}{x!(n-x)!}[/tex]

In this case, we want to select 6 parents from a group of 24 and select 2 teachers from the 8 teachers, so

[tex]\begin{gathered} 24C6=\frac{24!}{6!(24-6)!}=134596 \\ 8C2=\frac{8!}{2!(8-2)!}=28 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Therefore, the groups can be made in 3,768,688 different ways because

24C6 x 8C2 = 134,596 x 28 = 3,768,688