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The number of ways, in which 16 oranges can be distributed to four children such that each child gets at least one orange, is
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Distributing 16 identical oranges to 4 children with each getting at least 1.
Let 
for 
and 
.
Substituting 
: 
.
By stars and bars, number of ways 
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