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-Consider the following counting problem. A pool of possible jurors consists of 11 men and 13 women. How many different juries consisting of 5 women and 7 men are possible?
To solve this problem, which of the following rules would you use?
A)Both the permutations rule and the fundamental counting principle
B)Both the combinations rule and the fundamental counting principle
C)The combinations rule only
D)The fundamental counting principle only

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To form a jury of 5 women and 7 men, you use the combinations rule to choose 5 women from 13 and 7 men from 11, then apply the fundamental counting principle to combine these choices.

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