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Old 01-04-2019, 05:28 PM
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I believe it's 792 combos. Statistically, 12 choose 5, which would be 12!/[(5!)(7!)].
Indeed. Dividing by 7! accounts for only choosing 5 items of the 12, and dividing by 5! accounts for the fact that within the group of 5 sequence doesn't matter.
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