Math problem
I seem to remember learning a formula for this in the probability unit of Algebra 2, but darned if I'm going to remember how to do it.
How do you calculate the number of possible outcomes for a combination of a fixed number of factors with no repeats?
In my story I have 40 theaters in a random drawing to perform 40 unique works of Shakespeare (the plays plus readings of his poetry to round up to an even 40 performances). There is a lottery of random drawings to determine which theater will perform which work.
How many possible outcomes are there?
(The reason I want to know is that I have a character doing bookie work before the lottery, and one of his games is to sell pre-printed "possibility" cards. I'm curious if he would be able to print and sell all of them, or if that number would be astronomically high to the point of unreasonable).
Boy, I am giving my flist lots of homework today, aren't I?
How do you calculate the number of possible outcomes for a combination of a fixed number of factors with no repeats?
In my story I have 40 theaters in a random drawing to perform 40 unique works of Shakespeare (the plays plus readings of his poetry to round up to an even 40 performances). There is a lottery of random drawings to determine which theater will perform which work.
How many possible outcomes are there?
(The reason I want to know is that I have a character doing bookie work before the lottery, and one of his games is to sell pre-printed "possibility" cards. I'm curious if he would be able to print and sell all of them, or if that number would be astronomically high to the point of unreasonable).
Boy, I am giving my flist lots of homework today, aren't I?