Question

A particular basketball team consists of 13 players. The coach must choose 3 players from the starting lineup of 5 players to participate in a post-game interview.

The Number of ways that the coach can choose the players for the interview based on the starting lineup from tonight's game is?

Answer 1

10 ways

Explanation:

Here, we want to calculate the number of ways in which the selection can be made

We have this as follows;

Since we have style starting line up already, it means a choice of 5 has been made from the 13 already. What is left is to make a selection of 3 from 5

To do this, we simply apply the combination formula

that would be;

5 C 3 = 10 ways