In an examination, a student has to answer 10 questions, choosing at least 4 from each of part A and part B. If there are 6 questions in part A and 7 in part B, in how many ways can these questions be chosen?
There are total 13 questions out of which 10 is to be answered .The student can answer in the following ways:
$\Rightarrow 6$ questions from part $A$ and 4 from part $B$
$\Rightarrow 5$ questions from part $A$ and 5 from part $B$
$\Rightarrow 4$ questions from part $A$ and 6 from part $B$
$\Rightarrow$ total ways in the 1 st case are ${ }^{6} \mathrm{C}_{6} \times{ }^{7} \mathrm{C}_{4}$
$\Rightarrow$ total ways in the 2 nd case are ${ }^{6} \mathrm{C}_{5} \times{ }^{7} \mathrm{C}_{5}$
$\Rightarrow$ total ways in the 3 rd case are ${ }^{6} \mathrm{C}_{4}{ }^{\times}{ }^{7} \mathrm{C}_{6}$
thus the total of the all the cases would be total ways in the 1st case is $={ }^{6} \mathrm{C}_{6} \times{ }^{7} \mathrm{C}_{4}+$ ${ }^{6} \mathrm{C}_{5} \times{ }^{\times}{ }^{7} \mathrm{C}_{5}+{ }^{+} \mathrm{C}_{4} \times{ }^{7} \mathrm{C}_{6}$
Applying ${ }^{n} C_{r}=\frac{n !}{r !(n-r) !}$
$=266$ ways.