A committee of 3 experts is to be selected out of a panel of 7 persons. 3 of them are engineers, 3 are managers, and 1 is both an engineer and manager. In how many ways can the committee be selected if it must have at least one engineer and one manager?
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Combination question on forming a committee
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The total number of ways is:
$\binom {3} {1} \binom {3} {1} \binom {1} {1} + 2 \times \binom {3} {2} \binom {1} {1} + 2 \times\binom {3} {2} \binom {3} {1} =9 + (2 \times 3) + (2 \times 9) = 9 + 6 + 18 = 33.$