Problem 160. So many choices

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Sumit Agrawal on 10 Sep 2013

Why in my pc showing correct but not in this

the cyclist on 11 Sep 2013

@Sumit, you are probably using a function from a toolbox (e.g. statistics toolbox) that is not available to Cody.

Riccardo Dessì on 25 Feb 2018

http://onlinestatbook.com/2/probability/permutations.html

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alexander on 8 Mar 2017

The test suite throws errors where but I get correct answers when I run.

function y = fcn(n,k)
y = size(combntns(1:n,k),1);
end

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Franck Dernoncourt on 30 Jan 2012

Let me import my Statistics Toolbox!
;)

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