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• Sep 28, 2016

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Q: In how many ways can ten students be split into two teams of five for a basketball game this weekend?

What do y'all think?
126, 3628800, or something else?

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My question is, why does it matter and does anyone really care?

 

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Firearmfanatic said:

My question is, why does it matter and does anyone really care?

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The concept is on a test I have soon, and my 55 classmates are disagreeing on how to do it. I figured one of you people will have a solid answer haha.

 

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AustinBR said:

The concept is on a test I have soon, and my 55 classmates are disagreeing on how to do it. I figured one of you people will have a solid answer haha.

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Ok, I got you. Hope you get an answer as I have no clue.

 

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You're being asked to calculate the number of combinations without repetition (e.g. John doe can't be on team a twice in the same combination or on team a and team B in the same combination). There's the same number of players on each team, and we aren't factoring in position, so you really just need to know how many combinations without repetition you can make of 10 elements in a set of 5. 10!/[5!(10-5)!] = 252

My stats is rusty, but think that's right

 

• Sep 29, 2016

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What's the male to female ratio?

 

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Are they playing on 8ft goals?

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Are they playing on a weekday or weekend? Statically speaking, .300 BLK could drop a boar in its tracks, if they use a Spalding ball on a Wednesday.

Also, what's the race of each player? You can't put all the short white kids on the same team.

 

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If you are referring to permutations, you can do it in Excel; the formula is =PERMUT(10,5) and the result is 30,240.

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mperr7530 said:

If you are referring to permutations, you can do it in Excel; the formula is =PERMUT(10,5) and the result is 30,240.

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The order doesn't matter unless I'm missing something, so it would be a combination and not a permutation