Larry, Michael, and Doug have five donuts to share. If any one of the men can be given any whole number of donuts from 0 to 5, in how many different ways can the donuts be distributed?
Choose the most appropriate option: A) 21 B) 42 C) 120 D) 504 E) 5040
If you get confused about combinations, there's a simple way to count these combinations as well, by counting the number of ways 5 can be summed with 3 numbers.   {5,0,0} = 3 possibilities.   {4,1,0} = 6 possibilities.   {3,2,0} = 6 possibilities.   {3,1,1} = 3 possibilities.   {2,2,1} = 3 possibilities.   Total = 21 possibilitieS   21NSWER:21
<result>A</result>
Larry, Michael, and Doug have five donuts to share. If any one of the men can be given any whole number of donuts from 0 to 5, in how many different ways can the donuts be distributed?