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Four boys picked 30 apples. The number of ways in which they can divide then if all the apples are identical is

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Clearly, 30 mangoes can be distributed among 4 boys such that each boy can receive any number of mangoes.
Hence, total number of ways=`.^(30+4-1)C_(4-1)`
`=.^(33)C_(3)=(33*32*31)/(1*2*3)=5456`
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