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This document contains 20 word problems involving combinations and permutations. The problems involve counting the number of ways to choose items from different groups, arrange items in different orders, select representatives or teams from groups of people, and other counting scenarios. The document provides the setup for each problem but does not show the step-by-step work or solutions.

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Probobulity Codicks2

This document contains 20 word problems involving combinations and permutations. The problems involve counting the number of ways to choose items from different groups, arrange items in different orders, select representatives or teams from groups of people, and other counting scenarios. The document provides the setup for each problem but does not show the step-by-step work or solutions.

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1.

How many ways can a president and a secretary be chosen from 3 candidates for president and
5 for secretary?

2. Suppose a college has 3 different history courses, 4 different literature courses and two different
science courses (with no prerequisites). Find the number of ways that a student can choose one of
the courses.

3. Suppose a bookcase shelf has 6 mathematics texts, 3 physics texts, 4 chemistry texts, and 5
computer science texts. Find the number of ways student can choose one of the texts.

4. A history class contains 7 male students and 5 female students. Find the number of ways that the
class can elect a class representative.

5. A developer of a new subdivision offers prospective home buyers a choice of Tudor, rustic,
colonial and traditional exterior styling in ranch, two-storey, and split-level floor plans. In how
many different ways can a buyer order one of these homes?

6. A history class contains 7 male students and 5 female students. Find the number of ways that the
class can elect.

a. Two class representative, one male and one female

b. A president and a vice president

7. A customer wishes to install a Trimline telephone and can choose from 10 decorator colors,
which we shall assume are available in any of the 3 optional cord lengths with 2 types of dialing,
namely rotary or Touch-tone. In how many different ways for a customer to order one of these
phones?

8. How many lunches consisting of a soup, sandwich, dessert, and a drink are possible if we can
select from 4 soups, 3 kinds of sandwiches, 5 desserts, and 4 drinks?

9. HOW many Three-digit even numbers can be formed from the digits 1,2,5,6. and 9 if each digit
can be used only once?

10. In how many ways can 4 letters a,b,c, and d be arranged?

11. Four married couples have bought 8 seats in the same row for a concert. In how many different
ways can they be seated:
a. With no restrictions?
b. If each couple is to sit together?
c. If all the men sit together to the right of all the women?

12. In how many ways can a caravan of 8 covered wagons from Arizona be arranged in a circle?
13. Two lottery tickets are drawn from 20 for first and second prizes. Find the number of sample
points in the sample space S.

14. In how many ways can 5 starting positions on a basketbaH team be fiHed with 8 men who can
play any of the positions?

15. How many different ways can 3 red, 4 yellow, and 2 biue buibs be arranged in a string of
Christmas lights with 9 sockets?

16. How many distinct permutations are these in the word MILLENNIUM?

17. In how many ways can seven scientists be assigned to one triple and two double hotel rooms?

18.Find the number of ways that 12 students can be partitioned into three teams, so that each team
contains 4 students.

19. How many ways are there t0 select 3 candidates from 8 equally qualified recent graduates for
an opening in an accounting firm?

20.From a box containing 4 defective and 5 nondefective items, how many samp|es of size 3 are
possible?
a. With no restriction
b. With 1 defective and Z nondefective items
c. With 2 defectives and 1 nondefective item if a certain defective item mustbe on the samples
chosen?

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