A server distributes 10 identical cookies among 3 unique users with each user receiving at least one cookie. Which formula counts the number of possible cookie distributions?

💡 Explanation

The correct formula is stars and bars with pre-allocation, because each user must get at least one cookie; therefore, we subtract 1 from n before applying the stars and bars formula, rather than using the standard stars and bars without pre-allocation.

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