Discrete Math An organization has 9 male and 6 female member
Discrete Math
An organization has 9 male and 6 female members. They want to select a president, vice presiden, and secretary. How many ways if: President must be female
This is the answer:
6*14*13 = 1092 (6 is the no. of female members, but where did 14 & 13 come from?)
Solution
here we have to select 3 persons ( president, vice presiden, and secretary)
total number of persons 15( 9 male + 6 female)
if the presedent is felame then number of ways =6
so one person is over remaining persons are 14 ( 9 male + 5 female)
among 15 members one mest be vice president
so number of ways selecting vice president = 14
finally we have 13 memers among them we have to select one person ( secretary). number of ways = 13
hence the total number of ways = 6* 14* 13
