Can you be more specific as to what you are trying to understand.What's the difference between these two:
1) The number of permutations of n distinct objects taken r at a time is \(\frac{n!}{(n-r)!}\)
and
2) The number of combinations of n distinct objects taken r at a time is \(\frac{n!}{r!(n-r)!}\)
?
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