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How many ways are there to arrange 7 chocolate biscuits and 12 cheesecake biscuits into a row of 19 biscuits?(a) 52347(b) 50388(c) 87658(d) 24976This question was posed to me in an interview.My query is from Counting topic in division Counting of Discrete Mathematics

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The correct choice is (b) 50388

For explanation I WOULD say: Consider the situation as having 19 spots and FILLING them with 7 chocolate biscuits and 19 CHEESECAKE biscuits. Then we just choose 7 spots for the chocolate biscuits and let the other 10 spots have cheesecake biscuits. The number of ways to do this JOB is ^19C7 = 50388.



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