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Counting & ProbabilityHardCounting Strategies: Casework, Complementary & Overcounting

Counting Strategies: Casework, Complementary & Overcounting · Hard problem

A bakery offers 66 cupcake flavors. A customer buys a box of exactly 88 cupcakes, choosing how many of each flavor to include (repeats of a flavor allowed, order doesn't matter), with the requirement that at least 22 of the cupcakes are chocolate. How many different boxes are possible?