Due to their outstanding academic records, Donna and Katalin are the finalists for the outstanding physics student (in their college graduating class). A committee of 14 faculty members will each select one of the candidates to be the winner and place his or her choice (checked off on a ballot) into the ballot box. Suppose that Katalin receives nine votes and Donna receives five. In how many ways can the ballots be selected, one at a time, from the ballot box so that there are always more votes in favor of Katalin? [This is a special case of a general problem called, appropriately, the ballot problem. This problem was solved by Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand (1822-1900).]
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