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15. There are 5 different marshmallows, 7 different fruit drops and 12 different pieces of chocolate in a candy box. If 4 candies are picked and some of them are of the different types, find number of combinations.
16. There are 16 empty boxes. First, fill in any 4 boxes with black colour. Now we have 8 different colour pens without black colour. To fill in any 5 remaining boxes in the pattern obtained previously with different colours, how many different patterns can be formed?
17. There are 80 people in a choir. The choirmaster plans to choose 8 people and arrange them in a row for a performance. It is given that Timothy and Susan are chosen as the performers. The choirmaster chooses another 6 people at random. If Timothy cannot be arranged at the leftmost of the row and Susan cannot be arranged at the rightmost, find number of permutations.
Solutions:
15. 10 091
16. 9 686 476 800
17. 7.95 x 10^12