In SHORT BINGO, a 5 x 5 card is filled by marking the middle square as WILD and placing 24 other numbers in the remaining 24 squares.
Specifically a card is made by placing 5 numbers from the set 1 - 10 in the first column, 5 numbers from 11 - 20 in the second column, 4 numbers 21 - 30 in the third column (skipping the WILD square in the middle), 5 numbers from 31 - 40 in the fourth column and 5 numbers from 41 - 50 in the last column.
One possible SHORT BINGO card is:
How many different possible SHORT BINGO cards are there?
Not POSITIVE
each of four rows has 10 P 5 = 30240 possibles
middle row has 10 P 4 = 5040
4 * 30240 + 5040 = ......... possible cards