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A bag contains colored balls:

  • 8 red balls
  • 4 white balls
  • 4 blue balls
  • 4 green balls
  • 2 purple balls
  • 2 orange balls
  • 1 yellow ball
  • 1 black ball

Total of 26 balls.

I'd like to determine the number of combinations of balls when 8 are chosen. Doing a combination like 26C8 obviously disregards the order of the chosen balls, but I'd like to also disregard sets that identical colors (example, there are 8 ways (9c8) to have 7 red balls and one 1 black ball, because there are 8 different red balls, but I really want to count this as one combination).

I figure it probably ends up being 26C8 divided by....something? Any ideas?

A bag contains colored balls:

  • 8 red balls
  • 4 white balls
  • 4 blue balls
  • 4 green balls
  • 2 purple balls
  • 2 orange balls
  • 1 yellow ball
  • 1 black ball

Total of 26 balls.

I'd like to determine the number of combinations of balls when 8 are chosen. Doing a combination like 26C8 obviously disregards the order of the chosen balls, but I'd like to also disregard sets that identical colors (example, there are 8 ways to have 7 red balls and one 1 black ball, because there are 8 different red balls).

I figure it probably ends up being 26C8 divided by....something? Any ideas?

A bag contains colored balls:

  • 8 red balls
  • 4 white balls
  • 4 blue balls
  • 4 green balls
  • 2 purple balls
  • 2 orange balls
  • 1 yellow ball
  • 1 black ball

Total of 26 balls.

I'd like to determine the number of combinations of balls when 8 are chosen. Doing a combination like 26C8 obviously disregards the order of the chosen balls, but I'd like to also disregard sets that identical colors (example, there are 8 ways (9c8) to have 7 red balls and one 1 black ball, because there are 8 different red balls, but I really want to count this as one combination).

I figure it probably ends up being 26C8 divided by....something? Any ideas?

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Multiple objects, Number of combinations

A bag contains colored balls:

  • 8 red balls
  • 4 white balls
  • 4 blue balls
  • 4 green balls
  • 2 purple balls
  • 2 orange balls
  • 1 yellow ball
  • 1 black ball

Total of 26 balls.

I'd like to determine the number of combinations of balls when 8 are chosen. Doing a combination like 26C8 obviously disregards the order of the chosen balls, but I'd like to also disregard sets that identical colors (example, there are 8 ways to have 7 red balls and one 1 black ball, because there are 8 different red balls).

I figure it probably ends up being 26C8 divided by....something? Any ideas?