The number of ways selecting 5 out of the 13 students will ride in a car instead of a van is 1287.
The way of selecting 5 out of the 13 students will ride in a car instead of a van is evaluated by the combinations.
We consider the group of 5 students can be selected to ride in a car instead of a van.
Thus, for selecting a random group of the data from the universal data, we have to apply combinations to evaluate it.
Therefore, the ways can be formulated as:
[tex]^{13}C_5=\dfrac{13!}{5! \times 6!}\\=1287\;\rm{ways}[/tex]
Thus, the number of ways selecting 5 out of the 13 students will ride in a car instead of a van is 1287.
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