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A fish tank contains five gold colored fish and eight black colored fish.
1. in how many ways can five fish be selected
2. If a total of five fish have been selected from the tank, how many of these contain two gold fish.

2006-11-29 03:16:02 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

1 answers

1. If you don't care about color, then you just choose 5 from 13.

13C5

2. For this one you just choose 2 gold fish from the 5 and 3 black fish from the 8.

5C2 * 8C3

2006-11-29 03:20:39 · answer #1 · answered by Jim Burnell 6 · 0 0

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