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Question: 2019 Winter Midterm - 7

Author: Michiel Smid
Consider 17-element subsets of the set $\{1,2,3,\dots,45\}$.
How many such subsets have the property that the largest element in the subset is equal to 30?
(a)
${{29}\choose{16}}$
(b)
${30 \choose 17}$
(c)
${29 \choose 17}$
(d)
${30 \choose 16}$