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Q1. 10 students are divided into 5 groups and each groupwill be assigned a project topic

(a) if the 5 groups will work on 5 different topics,find the number of ways of forming groups (why I can't use themultinomial coefficient to calculate Question1???????)

answer: 10C2*8C2*6C2*4C2*2C2=113, 400

Example: A police department in a smallcity consists of 10 officers. If the department policy is
to have 5 of the officers patrolling the streets, 2 of the officersworking full time at the
station, and 3 of the officers on reserve at the station, how manydifferent divisions
of the 10 officers into the 3 groups are possible?

Why I can use the multinomial coefficient to calculatethis one? answer: 10!/(5!2!3!)

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The short answer to your query would be that you can use boththe methods Both the methods yield the same answerWe know that if we want to divide m n p objects into 3    See Answer
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