Answer to Question #173335 in Statistics and Probability for Rodianjudikaa

Question

In how many different ways can 15 tickets to a football game be distributed among a class of 30 students if each students gets at most one ticket?

Answer 1

Use $^{30}C_{15}$, unless the tickets have designated seating in which case you can use $^{30}P_{15}$

The value of $^{30}C_{15}=155,117,520$

$^{30}P_{15}=2.0284320439\times 10^{20}$