Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cdcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cwruecmp!cdcvax!rab From: rab@cdcvax.UUCP (Roger Bielefeld) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: my homework Message-ID: <111@cdcvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Sep-83 18:40:40 EDT Article-I.D.: cdcvax.111 Posted: Mon Sep 12 18:40:40 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Sep-83 05:33:20 EDT Organization: Community Dialysis Center, Cleveland Ohio Lines: 8 I find the discussion of "2=1" extremely boring. How about using this news group for something useful -- like my homework? Here's the first assigned problem in a course in combinatorial mathematics I'm auditing in preparation for a Ph.D. qualifier in computer science: In how many ways can we choose 2r people from n married couples in such a way that there are exactly k married couples among the 2r people? (k <= r <= n)