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spiderxro

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Registered: 2008-06-14

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A question about permutations&combinations

hello, i am not very good at math so I hope that someone will help me with this little problem.
Ok, let's say that we have 6 teams(A,B,C,D,E.F) of 6 (a,b,c,d,e,f) players each.
from this 6 teams, we can only select 1 player at a time ex: Aa, Ab, Ac.
I need to select a player from each team covering all the possibilities. ex : Ab, Be. Cf, Da, Eb, Fe
I want to find out how many possible permutations or combinations can be made from this example and how.
if i use the formulas i get 720 or 400 and something but i'm not sure that is correct for the use I have in mind for this. i need all the possible solutions please.

Thank you in advance

JaneFairfax

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Registered: 2007-02-23

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Re: A question about permutations&combinations

Isn’t it 6[sup]6[/sup] = 46656?

John E. Franklin

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Re: A question about permutations&combinations

Yes, 6 times 6 times 6 times 6 times 6 times 6 is 46656 according to Google's calculator!
I think that's the answer.
Do you really want a list of all of them, it might take tens of pages?

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spiderxro

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Registered: 2008-06-14

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Re: A question about permutations&combinations

i also took into account this answer but i didn't want to believe it because if it was true it would not be good for me.
I guess it's like this, thank you