Suppose we select 3 students randomly out of a class of 10 students to read a  paper from the literature and summarize the results for the class. How many ways  can the students be selected? Is this a permutation, a combination, or neither?

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Suppose we select 3 students randomly out of a class of 10 students to read a  paper from the literature and summarize the results for the class. How many ways  can the students be selected? Is this a permutation, a combination, or neither?

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