Chapters
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- Exercise 7
- Exercise 8
- Exercise 9
- Exercise 10
- Exercise 11
- Exercise 12
- Solution of exercise 1
- Solution of exercise 2
- Solution of exercise 3
- Solution of exercise 4
- Solution of exercise 5
- Solution of exercise 6
- Solution of exercise 7
- Solution of exercise 8
- Solution of exercise 9
- Solution of exercise 10
- Solution of exercise 11
- Solution of exercise 12
Exercise 1
How many different combinations of management can there be to fill the positions of president, vice-president and treasurer of a football club knowing that there are 12 eligible candidates?
Exercise 2
How many different ways can the letters in the word "micro" be arranged if it always has to start with a vowel?
Exercise 3
How many combinations can the seven colors of the rainbow be arranged into groups of three colors each?
Exercise 4
How many different five-digit numbers can be formed with only odd numbered digits? How many of these numbers are greater than 70,000?
Exercise 5
How many games will take place in a league consisting of four teams? (Each team plays each other twice, once at each teams respective "home" location)
Exercise 6
10 people exchange greetings at a business meeting. How many greetings are exchanged if everyone greets each other once?
Exercise 7
How many five-digit numbers can be formed with the digits 1, 2 and 3? How many of those numbers are even?
Exercise 8
How many lottery tickets must be purchased to complete all possible combinations of six numbers, each with a possibility of being from 1 to 49?
Exercise 9
How many ways can 11 players be positioned on a soccer team considering that the goalie cannot hold another position other than in goal?
Exercise 10
How many groups can be made from the word "house" if each group consists of 3 alphabets?
Exercise 11
Sarah has 8 colored pencils that are all unique. She wants to pick three colored pencils from her collection and give them to her younger sister. How many different combinations of colored pencils can Sarah make from 8 pencils?
Exercise 12
Alice has 6 chocolates. All of the chocolates are of different flavors. She wants to give two of her chocolates to her friend. How many different combinations of chocolates can Alice make from six chocolates?
Solution of exercise 1
How many different combinations of management can there be to fill the positions of president, vice-president and treasurer of a football club knowing that there are 12 eligible candidates?
The order of the elements does matter.
The elements cannot be repeated.
Solution of exercise 2
How many different ways can the letters in the word "micro" be arranged if it always has to start with a vowel?
The words will begin with i or o followed by the remaining 4 letters taken from 4 by 4.
The order of the elements does matter.
The elements cannot be repeated.
Solution of exercise 3
How many combinations can the seven colors of the rainbow be arranged into groups of three colors each?
The order of the elements does not matter.
The elements cannot be repeated.
Solution of exercise 4
How many different five-digit numbers can be formed with only odd numbered digits? How many of these numbers are greater than 70,000?
The order of the elements does matter.
The elements cannot be repeated.
n = 5 k = 5
The odd numbers greater than 70,000 have to begin with 7 or 9. Therefore:
Solution of exercise 5
How many games will take place in a league consisting of four teams? (Each team plays each other twice, once at each teams respective "home" location)
The order of the elements does matter.
The elements cannot be repeated.
Solution of exercise 6
10 people exchange greetings at a business meeting. How many greetings are exchanged if everyone greets each other once?
The order of the elements does not matter.
The elements cannot be repeated.
Solution of exercise 7
How many five-digit numbers can be formed with the digits 1, 2 and 3? How many of those numbers are even?
The order of the elements does matter.
The elements are repeated.
If the number is even it can only end in 2.
Solution of exercise 8
How many lottery tickets must be purchased to complete all possible combinations of six numbers, each with a possibility of being from 1 to 49?
The order of the elements does not matter.
The elements cannot be repeated.
Solution of exercise 9
How many ways can 11 players be positioned on a soccer team considering that the goalie cannot hold another position other than in goal?
Therefore, there are 10 players who can occupy 10 different positions.
The order of the elements does matter.
The elements cannot be repeated.
Solution of exercise 10
The word house has 5 alphabets. If each new word should have 3 alphabets, then we should use the following formula:
, where 
Substitute the values in this example in the above formula:
Solution of exercise 11
Number of pencils Sarah have = 8
Number of pencils she wants to give to her younger sister = 3
We will use the binomial coefficients formula to determine the number of combinations:
, where
After substitution we will get the number of combinations:
Hence, Sarah can make 56 combinations of 8 colored pencils given the fact that she can choose 3 at a time.
Solution of exercise 12
Number of chocolates Alice have = 6
Number of chocolates she wants to give to her friend= 2
We will use the binomial coefficients formula to determine the number of combinations:
, where
After substitution we will get the number of combinations:
Hence, Alice can make 15 combinations of 6 chocolates given the fact that she can choose 2.
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in how many ways can be 5 red balls and green balls be arranged in a row of no two green balls can be next to each other?
Great job but explanations are too complex