A guitar effects pedal enthusiast is going to a gear convention where people sometimes break out their own custom pedals to show off or trade. She has 5 different pedals she's thinking about packing with her, but she's not sure whether she should bring all of them, some of them, or none of them. How many different ways are there for her to decide whether and how many pedals to pack? Use subsets to help you figure this out, and write your answer as a whole number.

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There are 32 different combinations that she can select out of the 5 pedals.

How many different combinations there are?

We want to get the total number of different combinations that we can make with 5 different pedals.

Remember that for a set of N elements, the number of different sets of K elements that we can make is:

[tex]C(N, K)=\frac{N!}{(N - K)!*K!}[/tex]

In this case, the total number of different combinations that we can make with the 5 pedals is given by:

C = C(5, 0) + C(5, 1) + C(5, 2) + C(5, 3) + C(5, 4) + C(5, 5).

Let's calculate each one of these:

[tex]C(5, 0) = \frac{5!}{(5 - 0)!*0!} = \frac{5!}{5!} = 1\\\\C(5, 1) = \frac{5!}{(5 - 1)!*1!} = \frac{5!}{4!} = 5\\\\C(5, 2) = \frac{5!}{(5 - 2)!*2!} = \frac{5!}{3!*2!} = \frac{5*4}{2} = 10\\\\C(5, 3)= \frac{5!}{(5 - 3)!*3!} = \frac{5!}{3!*2!} = \frac{5*4}{2} = 10\\\\\\C(5, 4) = \frac{5!}{(5 - 4)!*4!} = \frac{5!}{4!} = 5\\\\C(5, 5) = \frac{5!}{(5 - 5)!*5!} = 1[/tex]

So the total number of different combinations is:

C = 1 + 5 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 1 = 32

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