hogann wrote:
9 basketball players are trying out to be on a newly formed basketball team. Of these players, 5 will be chosen for the team. If 6 of the players are guards and 3 of the players are forwards, how many different teams of 3 guards and 2 forwards can be chosen?
A. 23
B. 30
C. 42
D. 60
E. 126
Take the task of creating a team and break it intostages .
Stage 1 Select 3 guards from the 6 eligible guards
Since the order in which we select the guards does not matter, we can use combinations.
We
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