A group of 300 people are being split into teams of 3 (where order of teams and order within a team don’t matter) i) How many ways are there to do this?

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A group of 300 people are being split into teams of 3 (where order of teams and order within a team don’t matter) i) How many ways are there to do this? ii) If the 300 people are actually 150 couples, and teams are randomly created, what is the expected number of teams containing married married couples?

 

 
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