If Marget needs 5players and has 8 people to choose from how many different possible teams are there?

Answer 1

You are looking at a combination: essentially an unordered grouping of a set number of options.

This differs from a permutation, where order is important to the grouping.

Check out the link at the bottom for more info on combinations:

Anyway, if she has 8 people and needs to group them into 5, it will follow:

# of possible teams = 8!/5!(8-5)!

which equals 56 combinations of five person teams from a sample of 8 people.

Answer 2

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