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 September 9th, 2018, 09:18 PM #1 Newbie   Joined: Sep 2018 From: Australia Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Total Combinations Hi Forum, I have 10 football matches being played on the weekend (Team 1 vs Team 2, Team 3 vs Team 4...Team 19 vs Team 20). I want to have a bet on a multi/parlay/accumulator with 4 teams in the bet. I want to work out how many combinations of 4 teams (each playing in different matches) exists (e.g. Teams 1-3-5-7 would be the first combination). I have written down as methodically as I can every combination in an Excel file and come up with 3352 total combinations. I want to confirm I have recorded all possible combinations. Does anyone know how to calculate the total number of combinations that should exist? Thanks, Rob
 September 9th, 2018, 09:29 PM #2 Senior Member     Joined: Sep 2015 From: USA Posts: 2,427 Thanks: 1314 First you pick 4 of the 10 games. This is $\dbinom{10}{4}= 210$ Then for each of those games you have 2 choices of which team to bet on. That gets you $2^4=16$ So the total combos is $210 \cdot 16 = 3360$
 September 9th, 2018, 10:38 PM #3 Newbie   Joined: Sep 2018 From: Australia Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanks romsek! I'm 8 combos short. Will go looking now! Cheers, Rob

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