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Question

A teacher takes three children from her class to a zoo at a time, but she does not take the same three children to the zoo more than once. She finds that she went to the zoo 84 times more than a particular child has gone to the zoo. The number of children in her class is

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Solution

The number of times the teacher goes to the zoo is  nC3. The number of times a particular child goes to the zoo is equal to number of ways two other children can be selected who accompany a particular child, i.e.,  n1C2. From the question.

    nC3n1C2=84 or     (n1)(n2)(n3)=6×84=9×8×7    n1=9


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