A company produces fruit juice in 10 different flavors. a local supermarket sells the product, but has only sufficient shelf space to display 3 of the company's 10 fruit juice flavors at a time. How many possible combinations of 3 flavors can the fruit juice company display on the local supermarket shelf?

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3 September, 01:06

A company produces fruit juice in 10 different flavors. a local supermarket sells the product, but has only sufficient shelf space to display 3 of the company's 10 fruit juice flavors at a time. How many possible combinations of 3 flavors can the fruit juice company display on the local supermarket shelf?

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Solomon Avila · Answer 1

120.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is the number of combinations of 3 from 10.

This = 10C3

= 10! / 3! (10-3) !

= 10*9*8 / 3*2*1

= 120 combinations.