Homework Help: Calculus

Posted by Timofey on Sunday, August 19, 2012 at 12:08am.

A club has 45 members and its membership committee has 7 members. How many different membership committees are possible?

I keep getting 1.6336632e10, but I know its not right somehow

Calculus - Reiny, Sunday, August 19, 2012 at 7:47am
The order of selection in a committee is usually not important.
So we are "choosing" groups of 7 from 45
which is C(45,7)
or 45!/(7!38!) = 453796620

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