In your home, you have two bookshelves that will hold 10 books each and you have 25 books. You want to do the following: a. Choose 10 books to be placed on each shelf. How many sets of 10 can be chosen from the 25 books for the first shelf? b. Arrange the books on the shelfs. How many different arrangements can be made with the 10 chosen books on a shelf?
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