I can't seem to wrap my head around permutation and combination.
For instance here is a very straight forward question:
10 red, 5 white, numbered marbles
How many samples (of size 4) have exactly 3 red marbles?
So what I'm thinking is 10 C 3 straight forward enough so far. However, I can't seem to understand why the answer is 10 C 3 $\cdot$ 5 C 1. I don't understand how to interpret the 5 C 1. (out of the 5 items we choose 1 ??)
Please help.
Next to the $3$ red marbles you also choose $1$ white one out of $5$.
There are $\binom51=5$ possibilities for that, because they are distinguishable (they have a number).