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Excercise Question For MTH102

The document contains a series of combinatorial and permutation problems related to arranging letters, awarding prizes, forming numbers, and selecting committees. It includes specific questions about arrangements of letters in words, the number of ways to choose prizes, and how to select items from groups. Additionally, it covers calculations involving factorials and combinations.

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Excercise Question For MTH102

The document contains a series of combinatorial and permutation problems related to arranging letters, awarding prizes, forming numbers, and selecting committees. It includes specific questions about arrangements of letters in words, the number of ways to choose prizes, and how to select items from groups. Additionally, it covers calculations involving factorials and combinations.

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(b) Since 2 arc always excluded we must sclcct 3 out of 13 boys

C(13,3) 1312111u
10132
286
(c)
121110!
C(15-12,3-1) = 1012 66

2.3 Tutorial Question


1. In how many ways can the letters of the word MEASURING be arranged or permuted

2. n how many ways can the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes be awarded in a race if there are ten
competitors
3. How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 (no digits being
repcated).
4. Cxamination paper has six questions but only four
An
different the be
are to be answered. In how many
ways can answers arranged?
5. What are the values of 3!, 6!, 10!, 15!?

6. In how many ways five different books be


can
arranged in order?

7. How many numbers greater than 3000can be made from the


digits 1,2, 3,4,5, without
repeating any of them

8. Find the number of arrangements of the letters of the word


PERCENTAGE if the E's must
be place next to each other

9. In how many different ways can the letters of the word SALOON be
two O's must not come
arranged (a) if the
together, (b) If the consonants and vowels must occupy alternate
places?
10. Find how many numbers greater than 100 can be formed from
the digits 1,2,3,4,5 no digit
being used more than once in many particular number.

11. In how many ways can 4 boys be chosen from 6


12. A committec of 2 men and 3 women is to be chosen from 5 men and 4 women. How many
different committees can be formed?
13. In hoW many three
ways can
equal prizes be given to five boys
14. In how I choose 2 red balls and 3 black balls from
many ways can
and 6 black balls.
a bag containing five red

5. A bag contains 2 whitc and 3 red balls. In how


many ways can I choose threc balls (a) if
atleast one ball must be white (b) If atleast one
ball must be red
16. Prove that "C, =
r!x (n-r)!

17. 3 How many ways can five people stand in a line?

18. in how many arrangements can 4 students fronm a class of 16 give a specch?

9. How many ten digit telephone numbers are there if the first and Fourth digit cannot be a
0 or a 1

20. t there are 15 basic colours available for a new bicycle along with 7 basic styles of trim. In
how many ways can a person pick the colour and a trim?
2. A lecturer has 5 copies of an algcbra book and 3 copics of a calculus text. How many
distinguishable ways can thc books bc placc on a shelf
22. how many ways are there to draw 3 red marbles and 2 blue marbles Prom a jar that contains
10 red marbles and 12 blue marbles?

23. how many committee of 7


people can be sclected from 5 women and 4 men?
24. Explain the difference bctween a
perinutation and a combination.
25. Show that
(nc) =
(n lc,-1)
-

26."Pa =
72 find the value of n
27. Evaluate the
expression. P(8,4) and P(10,7)
28. Evaluate the
expression C(10, 5) and C(100, 4)
29. How many ways 25
can
people stand in a linc?
30. Count the number of
ways that thc question in an exam could be
answered
(a) ten true or falsequestion
(b) ten multiple choice question with five choices each
(c) five true or false
questions and ten multiple choice questions with four
choice each

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