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Since the boxes are indistinguishable and so are the balls, this would be like making stacks of 3 balls from 5 and the only difference between the stacks would be
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Since the boxes are indistinguishable and so are theobjects, this would be like making stacks of 3 objects from 5 and the only difference between the stacks would be
the number of balls present. then we would have:
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the number of objects present. then we would have:
 
[0 0 5]
 
[0 0 5]
 
[0 1 4]
 
[0 1 4]
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[2 2 1]
 
[2 2 1]
  
ways of placing the balls...hence this would give us 5 ways of arranging teh balls.
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ways of placing the objects...hence this would give us 5 ways of arranging teh objects.

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Since the boxes are indistinguishable and so are theobjects, this would be like making stacks of 3 objects from 5 and the only difference between the stacks would be the number of objects present. then we would have: [0 0 5] [0 1 4] [0 3 2] [3 1 1] [2 2 1]

ways of placing the objects...hence this would give us 5 ways of arranging teh objects.

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