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Chapter 1: Problem 10

How many ways are there to pick a five-person basketball team from 12 possible players? How many selections include the weakest and the strongest players?

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There are 792 ways to pick a 5-person basketball team out of 12 players. Out of these 792 teams, 120 of them will include both the strongest and weakest players.

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Calculation of Total Combinations

The first task is to determine how many ways are there to select 5 players out of 12. This is a problem of combination as the order of selection doesn't matter. The formula for calculating combinations is \(C(n, r) = \frac{n!}{r!(n - r)!}\) where \(n\) is the total number of items, \(r\) is the number of items to choose, and ! denotes the factorial function. Substituting the given values \(n = 12\) and \(r = 5\), we get \(C(12, 5) = \frac{12!}{5!(12 - 5)!}\)
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Calculate Combinations including Strongest and Weakest Players

The second task is to find out the number of ways to select 5 players including both the weakest and the strongest players. As these two are already selected, it would mean to pick 3 out of the remaining 10 players. We can use the same formula to find you can have, \(C(10, 3) = \frac{10!}{3!(10 - 3)!}\)

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