Team assignments with two marketing refusals
Question
A startup's employees must be split into a software team of , a content team of and a marketing team of . Two particular employees, and , refuse to be on the marketing team. In how many ways can everyone be assigned?
Short answer
. Fill marketing first from the eligible people in ways; then pick software from the who remain in ways, and the last form the content team. So .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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