From a group of 10 women and 10 men a committee consisting of 3 women and 3 men is to be formed. How many different committees are possible if 1 woman and 1 man refuse to serve together?
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well, first of all we need to calculate how many ways we can pick 3 men from 10 men and 3 women from 10 women so that'll be ( 3 1 0 ) ( 3 1 0 ) = 1 4 4 0 0 but because 1 man and 1 woman refused to serve together, we can't get them in the calculation ! so let's say that 1 slot have been filled with this 2 guys, so we have 9 men and 9 women left. then we have ( 2 9 ) ( 2 9 ) = 1 2 9 6 So, for the ways to rearrange them without having these 2 guys serving together are 1 4 4 0 0 − 1 2 9 6 = 1 3 1 0 4