A College Plans to Interview 8 Students for Possible Offer

question 22

Short Answer

A college plans to interview 8 students for possible offer of graduate assistantships. The college has three assistantships available. How many groups of three can the college select?

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Definitions:

Disjuncts

Components of a disjunction (an "or" statement) that represent alternative statements or clauses, where if one is true, the others do not have to be.

Antecedents

Factors or events that precede and potentially influence the outcome of a subsequent event or condition.

Consequents

The outcomes or results that logically follow from a given condition or premise.

Biconditional

A logical statement that is true if both of its component statements (the conditions) are either both true or both false.