How many ways are there to choose a unordered box of 12 balls from 21 different balls?
I can only think 21 choose 12, but I don't think its right though.
How many ways are there to choose a unordered box of 12 balls from 21 different balls?
I can only think 21 choose 12, but I don't think its right though.
This is sort of the definition of 21 choose 12.
The number of ways to chose the ordered boxes is $21*20*19....*11*10= \frac{21!}{10!}$
But we can divide these into groups of 12! that provide the same unordered bx. Therefore there are $\frac{21}{10!*12!}=\binom{21}{12}$