Excursions in Modern Mathematics, Books a la carte edition (9th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134469041
Author: Peter Tannenbaum
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 16, Problem 30E
In Exercises 27 through 30, you are asked to give your answer using the notation
There are 347 NCAA Division I college basketball teams.
a. How many different top-25 rankings are possible? [Assume that every team has a
chance to be a top-25 team.]
b. How many ways are there to choose 64 teams (unseeded) to make it to the NCAA
tournament? [Assume every combination of 64 teams is possible.]
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