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Problem Set
Combinatorics and Probability

Solve the following problems. Write your solution in a long bond paper.

A. COMBINATORICS

1. Five boys and 5 girls were nominated for a homecoming celebration at a

local school. How many ways can a king, a queen, and a court of 2 students
be selected from those nominated? Assume the king must be a boy and the
queen a girl.
2. A committee consists of 10 people.
a. How many ways can a subcommittee of 3 people be selected from the
committee?
b. How many ways can an executive subcommittee consisting of 3 people
(chairperson, treasurer, and secretary) be selected from the committee?
c. Why are the answers to parts a and b are different?
3. From a deck of 52 cards, how many 5-card hands can be formed in each
case?
a. There are only aces or face cards.
b. There are only numbered cards (no letters)
c. There are 2 clubs and 3 diamonds.
d. There are at least 4 red cards.
e. There are exactly 3 fives.
f. There are exactly 2 Queens and exactly 2 hearts
4. From a deck of 52 cards, the 12 face card are removed. From these face
cards, 4 are chosen. How many combinations that have at least two red
cards are possible?
5. To play in the Super 7 lottery, you must choose 7 numbers from 1 to 47. To
play in the Lotto 649 lottery, you must choose 6 numbers from 1 to 49. To win
each jackpot, the numbers chosen must match the numbers drawn by the
lottery corporation.
a. Without doing any calculations, which do you think is more likely, winning
the Super 7 jackpot or winning the Lotto 649 jackpot?
b. How many ways are there to match exactly 4 numbers in each lottery?
6. There are 8 boys and 12 girls in a drama club. How many ways can a
committee of 5 be selected in each case?
a. There must be at least 2 boys.
b. There must be at least 2 girls.
c. There must be more girls than boys.
 7. A multiple choice test has 12 questions, with 5 possible answers for each
question.
a. If a student were to guess the answer to each question, how many
different ways would there be to answer the test?
b. Some sneaky student stole the solution key and is selling info to several
students. Here is the info: 2 answers are A, 4 answers are B, 3 answers
are C, 2 answers are D, and 1 answer is E. How many different answer
keys are possible?
8. The dial on a combination lock contains marking which represent the number
from 0 to 59 inclusive. How many three number combinations are possible if
the first number must be a multiple of 4, the second must be a prime number
smaller than 20, and the third number must be different from both of the first
two numbers?
9. Solve (algebraically):
a. nC2 = 15
b. 100P3
4!(𝑛−5)!
c. (𝑛−3)! = 4
10. There are 9 people from Lord Byng running in the Sun Run. If Mr. Cacchioni,
Mr. Jack and Mr. Martin are all in the top 3, and Mrs Lopoke and Mr Tutired
finish last and second last respectively, how many different orders can the 9
runners finish in? Assume there were no ties.
11. How many words can be formed by using all of the letters in
SCRUMTRELESCENT?
12. In how many different ways can 12 people be seated in a round table?
13. In how many ways can 9 keys be arranged in a key ring?
14. How many words can be formed by using all of the letters in RACONTEUR if
the word must start and end with a vowel?
15. How many words can be formed by using all of the letters of GOVERNATOR
if the two R’s must be together?

B. PROBABILITY

1. A die is rolled, find the probability that an even number is obtained.

2. Two coins are tossed, find the probability that two heads are obtained.
3. Two dice are rolled, find the probability that the sum is
a. equal to 1
b. equal to 4
c. less than 13
4. A die is rolled and a coin is tossed, find the probability that the die shows an
odd number and the coin shows a head.
5. A card is drawn at random from a deck of cards. Find the probability of getting
the 3 of diamond.
6. A card is drawn at random from a deck of cards. Find the probability of getting
a queen.
7. A jar contains 3 red marbles, 7 green marbles and 10 white marbles. If a
marble is drawn from the jar at random, what is the probability that this marble
is white?
8. If A and B are mutually exclusive events such that P(A) = 3/5 and P(B) =
1/5,then find P (AUB)
9. If A and B are two events such that P(A) = 1/4,P(B) = 2/5 and P(AUB) =
1/2,then find P(A∩B)
10. If P(A) = 1/2,P(B) = 7/10,P(AUB) = 1,find
a. P (A∩B)
b. P(A' U B')
11. If a die is rolled twice,find the probability of getting an even number in the first
time or a total of 8.
12. One number is chosen randomly from the integers 1 to 50. Find the
probability that it is divisible by 4 or 6.
13. A bag contains 50 bolts and 150 nuts. Half of the bolt and half of the nuts are
rusted. If an item is chosen at random,find the probability that it is rusted or
that it is a bolt.
14. Two dice are rolled simultaneously. Find the probability that the sum of the
numbers on the faces neither divisible by 3 nor by 4.
15. A basket contain 20 apples and 10 oranges out of which 5 apples and 3
oranges are rotten. If a person takes out one fruit at random, find the
probability that the fruit is either an apple or good fruit.
16. In a class,40% of the students participated in mathematics quiz,30% in
science quiz and 10% in both the quiz programmes. If a student is selected at
random from the class,find the probability that the student participated in
mathematics or science or both quiz programmes.
17. A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the
probability that it will be a spade or a king.
18. A box contains 10 white,6 red and 10 black balls. A ball is drawn at random.
Find the probability that the ball drawn is white or red.
19. A box contains 4 red socks, 3 white socks, and 3 blue socks. Without looking,
you select a sock at random, replace it, and select a second sock at random.
What is the probability that the first sock is blue and the second sock is red?
20. If you draw two cards from a standard deck of 52 cards without replacement,
find:
a. P(king first, Jack second)
b. P(face card first, ace second)