Pedro's school had an ice cream social to raise money for a school trip. how many ways can ice cream be ordered with 2 different toppings ?

So, say order mattered. If we had x toppings and we only wanted groups of two different toppings, we would have x toppings for the first option, and x-1 toppings for the second option since we've already used a topping. Using the multiplication rule that would give us x(x-1) different groups, if order mattered, which is written as:

So, in this specific problem order does not matter. We see that we've overcounted because for every pair of toppings we have, they can be reordered 2!=2 ways. So that means we must divide by two to get:

Which is written as:

13

step-by-step explanation:

169-1=168

168-3=165

165-5=160

160-7=153

153-9=144

144-11=133

133-13=120

120-15=105

105-17=88

88-19=69

69-21=48

48-23=25

25-25=0

since it took 13times to completely subtract it hence its square root is 13