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A bag contains 5 black and 6 red balls. Determine the number of ways in which 2 black and 3 red balls can be selected.

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Hint: In this problem the bag contains 5 black and 6 red balls. We have to find the number of ways in which 2 black and 3 red balls can be selected, one thing is for sure that 2 black balls can only be drawn from the overall 5 black balls extending this concept to the red balls, 3 red balls can be selected from overall 6 red balls only. Use this concept to reach the solution.

The bag has 5 black balls and 6 red balls.
Now the number of ways of selecting 2 black balls from in total 5 black balls will be 5C2…………… (1)
Now the number of ways of selecting 3 red balls from in total 6 red balls will be 6C3…………… (2)
The total number of ways of selecting 2 black balls and 3 red balls will be equation (1) multiplied with equation (2).
5C2×6C3…………….. (3)
Using the formula of nCr=n!r!(nr)! we can rewrite equation (3) as
5C2×6C3=5!2!(52)!×6!3!(63)!5!2!(3)!×6!3!(3)!
Using the concept that n!=n×(n1)(n2)(n3).......(nr)! where r < n.
5C2×6C3=5×4×3!2(3)!×6×5×4×3!3×2×1×(3)!10×20=200
The number of ways in which 2 black and 3 red balls can be selected is 200.
Note: Whenever we face such types of problems the key concept is to have the physical understanding of the formula nCr which is the number of ways of selecting any r entities out of n entities. This concept along with the mathematical formula will help you solve problems of this kind and will take you to the right answer.
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