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This kind of problem belongs to an area of mathematics called combinatorics.

Usually the numbers will be written the other way round (i.e. 8C6), which would mean: 'calculate the number of ways that 6 items could be chosen from 8'.

In this example, 8C6 = 8! / (6! * 2!) = 28.

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