If you are drawing three things out at once, there are 35 combinations.
You solve this with a tree diagram. Consider the items as A,B,C,D,E,F.There are 15 combinations that have A, 10 that have B (not counting the ones with A), 6 with C (but not A or B), 3 with D (but not A,B, or C) and one EFG (without A,B,C or D).
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There are 5 ways to choose the first letter, 4 ways to pick the second letter, 3 ways to select the third, 2 options for the fourth letter leaving just one way to pick the final letter. The number of arrangements are thus 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 120
once as 10x10=100
The number of permutations of five things taken five at a time is five factorial, or 120.
There are 1000 ways to die.
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You can either press square and do an automatic pick or manually pick it.
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In 1,307,674,368,000, or 15! ways.
The editor can choose 4 stories from 17 submissions in 17 choose 4 ways, which is calculated as 17! / (4!(17-4)!) = 2380 ways.
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There are 18 Green balls and 12 Blue balls. You have to pick 2 blue balls, so the green balls don't matter. You can pick 1 blue ball on 12 ways. The second ball you can pick on 11 ways (because there are 11 balls left). 12 * 11 = 132. So you can pick it on 132 ways. ;)
There are two ways to pick potatoes in RuneScape. First, you can pick them from a standard field, located in many cities in the game. The other option is to grow them yourself and pick them from your garden.
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