Two brothers just remembered their mother's birthday is soon. They decide to surprise her with a fruit basket of oranges, apples, grapes, and bananas. Determine how many combinations of fruit they can put in the basket.

 

In a fruit basket, the combination of

 

is no different than the combination of

 

or any other combination of the same fruit!

Therefore, only one combination occurs because order does not matter . You can see that, regardless of how the fruit is ordered, the boys will put together the same basket.