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Help Math Geeks - Versed - Feb 04, 2009

I think I have it figured out but at the same time it's not making sense when I get to the end number.

Basically I'm trying to figure out the total number of choices you can make. Here's a picture that will either help you or confuse you.




I think it's as simple as doing 6 x 5 x 6 x 5. This equals out to 900 but there seems to be something missing and 900 looks a bit small compared to what I figured.

Since I don't know if I completely made it clear what I am trying to do I'll give an example.

If you take 1 from the first column, 1 from the second, 1 from the third and 1 from the last that will equal one choice.

Then if you repeat the above but in the fourth table choose 2 that's 2 choices, and so on and so on.

Help would be great if anyone knows anything. Thanks!

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Help Math Geeks - Drunken F00l - Feb 04, 2009

The answer is 6x5x6x5 just like you said assuming you can't mix the columns or anything crazy like that.

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Help Math Geeks - Versed - Feb 04, 2009

Nope, just trying to find out how many total choices you can make in all. Still it seems like 900 choices is too small but I guess it's right.

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Help Math Geeks - Drunken F00l - Feb 04, 2009

Think if each column had 10 choices (0-9). You'd have 10,000 choices doing the multiplication (0000-9999). Makes sense, right?

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Help Math Geeks - Rostov - Feb 04, 2009

hmmmm finite math. Haven't looked at that in over 15 years.....

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