Since it does not matter what order the committee members are chosen in, the combination formula is used.
Committees are always a combination unless the problem states that someone like a president has higher hierarchy over another person. If the committee is ordered, then it is a permutation.
A fort had provision of food for 150 men for 45 days. After 10 days, 25 men left the fort. The number of days for which the remaining food will last, is:
The product of two positive numbers is p. If each of the numbers is increased by 2, the new product is how much greater than twice the sum of the two original numbers ?
Let the two no's be a and b; Given product of the no's is p = ab; If the each nos is increased by 2 then the new product will be (a+2)(b+2) = ab + 2a + 2b + 4 = ab + 2(a+b) + 4 = p + 2(a+b) + 4 Hence the new product is (p+4) times greater than twice the sum of the two original numbers.