#865 · Combinatorics · Counting
Allocating volunteers to districts
Ten men are to canvass the first district, fifteen the second, and twenty the third. If 45 distinct men volunteer, in how many ways can they be assigned to the three districts?
H. S. Hall & S. R. Knight, Higher Algebra (1891) · Ch. XI. Permutations and Combinations, Examples XI.a, No. 25
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