Wannabe JOKAR

CAT Preparation Community 9y ago

Why this solution does not work? What is the conceptual gap here?

Since two opening are for women only so two out of  6 are selected in 6c2 ways. Then for the remaining two openings out of 9 men and 4 women , 2 are selected which can be done in 13c2 ways. so total of 1170 ways.

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Akhilesh Singh 9y ago

Hi Sourav,
Cases are being repeated in your method. Let me explain it with the help of an example. Say a, b, c, d, e, f are females and 1, 2, 3. . .. . 9 are males.
You are selecting two females so let a, b get selected. Among the remaining people say c and d selected. This is 1 way.
Now let's say while doing 6c2, you get c,d and while doing 13c2 you get a, b. Again you get a, b, c and d. Thus, both cases are same. There will be similar repetitions in your method.
Hope that helps.

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