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counting and probability intermediate

Problem

In how many ways can a President, Vice-President, and Treasurer be chosen from a group of guys and girls and at least one girl and at least one guy holds at least one of those three positions? One person cannot serve in more than one position.
Solution
We have choices for president, choices for vice-president, and choices for treasurer, for a total of choices. Now we have to subtract the number of choices that don't satisfy the requirement, where the officers are all boys or all girls. For either case, we have choices for president, choices of vice-president, and choices for treasurer, a total of choices. So we have total choices that don't satisfy the requirement.

Thus, there are good choices.
Final answer
288