Twelve students tried out for the football team. Coach Moorhead only has 5 openings. In how many way

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    Twelve students tried out for the football team. Coach Moorhead only has 5 openings. In how many ways, can he pick 5 of the 12 students to be on the team?

    We use the combinations formula. We can write this as 12C5. Type this into our search engine and we get:
    792 ways
     
    math_celebrity, Apr 27, 2020
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