Question

There are 12 basketball players on the team. In order to complete the main composition of the team for the

game, the coach can choose any 5 players from the team. How many different combinations of the main
compositions the coach can complete?

I get 792 but why is the answer 7.92. Kinda don't understand.

Answer 1

Explanation:

We have been given that a basketball team has 12 players and the coach wants to pick which 5 players will start today's game.

We will use combinations formula to solve our given problem. , where,

n = Number of total items,

r = Number of items being chosen at a time.

Upon substituting our given values in combinations formula we will get,

Therefore, the coach can choose from 792 combinations