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Object 3<br />

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Object 5<br />

OBJECT 3 Object 1 Object 2 Object 3 Object 4<br />

Object 1<br />

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Now, notice that we have 10 white spots left. This happens to be exactly one-third of what<br />

we had after we tripled the table. That is,<br />

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⏟<br />

Which can be simplified to,<br />

( )<br />

Select<strong>in</strong>g items allows this process to repeat, ad nauseam, any number of times.<br />

Mathematicians discovered that this tabular process could be reduced <strong>in</strong>to the <strong>for</strong>mula we<br />

“ ” general case (where we<br />

allow to be any value between 0 and the number of items we have to choose from), which<br />

tends to be discussed <strong>in</strong> more theoretical mathematics courses such as Discrete<br />

Mathematical Structures (our MAT227).<br />

Homework Problems - 3.5<br />

1. If possible, give an imag<strong>in</strong>ary (but realistic) scenario <strong>for</strong> each of the follow<strong>in</strong>g. If not<br />

possible, state why.<br />

a.<br />

b.<br />

c.<br />

d.<br />

<strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Decision</strong>-<strong>Mak<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>in</strong> Bus<strong>in</strong>ess © Milos Podmanik Page 132

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