Carcass wrote:
We have to distribute 7 cookies between 6 kids and give 7th leftover cookie for charity, so distribute 7 cookies between 7 entities: Deborah, Kim, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
If Deborah and Kim get chocolate cookies then there will be 2 chocolate and 3 oatmeal cookies to distribute between 5: 5!/(2!3!) = 10 (assign 5 cookies out of which 2 chocolate and 3 oatmeal cookies are identical to 5 people);
If Deborah and Kim get oatmeal cookies then there will be 4 chocolate and 1 oatmeal cookie to distribute between 5: 5!/(4!1!) = 5;
10 + 5 = 15.
I did like this
D, K eat chocolate + D, K eat oatmills
For D, K eat chocolate,
DK are already selected, so 4 people left, also 2 chocolate left
so, 4C2,
ie, (Choc, Oatmill) ---> ({D, K, R , T }, {M, N })
For DK eat oatmill,
DK are already selected, so 4 people left for 1 oatmill , when 1 oatmill person is selected, the rest go to chocolate,
so, 4C1 * 3C3
ie, (Choc, Oatmill) ---> ({M, N, R}, {D, K, T})
but the answer i get is 10
where am i wrong please help