Decide if the situation involves permutations, combinations, or neither Explain

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Decide if the situation involves permutations, combinations, or neither Explain your reasoning. The number of ways a five-member committee can be chosen from 15 people. Does the situation involve permutations, combinations, or neither? Choose the correct answer below. A. Combination. The order of the committee members does not matter. B. Neither. A line of people is neither an ordered arrangement of objects, nor a selection of objects from a group of objects. C. Permutation. The order of the committee members matters.

Explanation / Answer

In this, we just need to choose 5 members from 15 members. So, order will not matter here and we just need to look for combinations.

Option A is correct.

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