A computer programming team has 17 members. (a) How many ways can a group of nine be chosen to work on a project? As in Example 9.5.4, since the set of people in a group is a subset of the set of people on the team, the answer is 24,310 (b) Suppose nine team members are women and eight are men. (i) How many groups of nine can be chosen that contain five women and four men? As in Example 9.5.7a, think of forming the group as a two-step process, where step 1 is to choose the women and step 2 is to choose the men. The answer is 8,820 (ii) How many groups of nine can be chosen that contain at least one man? As in Example 9.5.7b, consider the relationship between the set of groups that consist entirely of women and the set of groups with at least one man. This thinking leads to the conclusion that the number of groups with at least on man is 24,309 (iii) How many groups of nine can be chosen that contain at most three women? A group of nine that contains at most three women can contain no women, one woman, two women, or three women. So, the number of groups of nine that contain at most three women is 2,649 (c) Suppose two team members refuse to work together on projects. How many groups of nine can be chosen to work on a project? In a similar way as in Example 9.5.6, let A and B be the two team members who refuse to work together in a group. Thinking about the number of groups that contain A and not B, B and not A, and neither A nor B leads to the conclusion that the total number of groups of that can be chosen to work on the project is 6,435 (d) Suppose two team members insist on either working together or not at all on projects. How many groups of nine can be chosen to work on a project? As in Example 9.5.5, let A and B be the two team members who insist on working in a group together or not at all. How many groups contain both A and B? How many groups contain neither A nor B? 11440