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Eight different computer science books have been purchased to give to 4 students who won

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Eight different computer science books have been purchased to give to 4 students who won a programming contest. If each student is to receive 2 of the 8 books, in how many ways can the 8 books be distributed to these students?

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Eight different computer science books have been purchased to give to 4 students who won a programming contest. If each student is to receive 2 of the 8 books, in how many ways can the 8 books be distributed to these students?

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A combination is the choice of r things from a set of n things without replacement and where order does not matter.

Of course, in this case, we were assuming that the n elements in the set are distinct.

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