We will have to take all cases in which we select one "indistinguishable" item, 2 "indistinguishable" item and so on till n "instinguishabe item.
Let indistinguishable item be k-set items, distinct items be s-set items.( or vice versa it will not change answer)
When we select 0 item from set of k-items then we can have n from s-items, when 1 item from set of k-items then n-1 from s-set and so on......
So total ways is,
nC0 + nC1 + .............+nCn = 2n (binomial)
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