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You can choose 4 people in (17 x 16 x 15 x 14) = 57,120 ways.

But there are (4 x 3 x 2) = 24 ways to pick the same 4 people, so there are only

57,120/24 = 2,380 different groups of 4 people that you can end up with.

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