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The document outlines a combinatorial problem involving the distribution of 10 people into 3 committees, ensuring that each committee has at least one member and no individual serves on all committees. It utilizes the principle of inclusion-exclusion to calculate the total valid arrangements, resulting in 55,980 ways to assign the members. The calculation involves determining the total assignments, subtracting invalid cases, and applying the inclusion-exclusion principle.

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Demo - Thetawise

The document outlines a combinatorial problem involving the distribution of 10 people into 3 committees, ensuring that each committee has at least one member and no individual serves on all committees. It utilizes the principle of inclusion-exclusion to calculate the total valid arrangements, resulting in 55,980 ways to assign the members. The calculation involves determining the total assignments, subtracting invalid cases, and applying the inclusion-exclusion principle.

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including , , , and more. 1. Total Ways to Assign People: Each of the 10 people can be assigned to any of
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remaining 10 people are assigned to the other two committees, which can be
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• Since any one of the 3 committees can be empty, there are 3 × 210 ways to
have one committee empty.

• Two Empty Committees: If two committees are empty, all 10 people must be
assigned to the remaining one committee, which can be done in only 1 way for
each pair of committees. Since there are 3 possible pairs of empty
committees, there are 3 × 1 ways.

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• Using inclusion-exclusion, the number of valid ways to assign people to


committees ensuring no committee is empty is:

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• 310 = 59049

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59049 − 3072 + 3 = 55980
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