Question

There are 12 students in a class, and 8 of them will be chosen to go on a field trip. How many ways can these students be chosen?

Answer 1

Here, the total number of students are 12 and 8 of them are chosen to go on a field trip. Here, the order of the selection is not important. So, it is a case of combination. The number of ways to choose the students to go on a trip is calculated below:

Hence, in 495 ways these students can be chosen.