TAKEHOME ACTIVITY : DUE NEXT MEETING

PRINCIPLES OF COUNTING
1. How many three-digit numbers can be formed with the digits 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 if (a)
repetitions are allowed; (b) no repetitions are allowed?

2. How many four-digit numbers, each less than 5,000, can be formed with the
digits 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 if (a) repetitions are allowed; (b) no repetitions are allowed?

3. How many committees consisting of 1 freshman, 1 sophomore and 1 junior can

be selected from 40 freshmen, 30 sophomores, and 25 juniors?

4. License plates are to be distinguished by using 3 letters followed by four digits.

How many different plates are possible (a) if letters and digits may be repeated;
(b) if no repetitions are allowed.

5. Six books with different titles have green covers and three books with different
titles have red covers. In how many ways can the nine books be arranged on a
shelf if (a) the red books are not to be separated; (b) the green books are not to
be separated and, (c) books of the same color are to be kept together?

6. If a man has three suits, four shirts, ten ties, six pairs of socks, two hats, and
three pairs of shoes, in how many ways can he be dressed?

PERMUTATION
1. How many permutations can be made from the letters in the words:
a. Mathematics?
b. Democrat?
c. Louisiana?
2. There are 10 buildings on a campus. In how many ways can a student visit all of
them?
 3. In how many ways can four Chinese, three Japanese, and five Cambodians be
seated in a row so that all people of a nationality are together?

4. In how many ways can 12 beads be strung on a necklace?

5. In how many ways can six mathematics books, four physics books and three
English books be arranged on a shelf so that all books on a subject are together?

COMBINATION

1. How many subsets of 5 elements can be formed from a set of 50 elements?

2. In how many ways 2 men of each nationality can be selected from eight
Hondurans and nine British Hondurans?

3. A group of nine people is to ride to a picnic in two cars. If one car

accommodates six passengers and the other three, in how many ways can the
group be divided for the ride?

4. A civic club has 47 members, including four doctors, five teachers and six
merchants. In how many ways can a committee of one doctor, one teacher, two
merchants and four other members be selected if the other members are not
doctors, teachers, or merchants?

5. Paulo has ten posters to post in his room but there is space for only six posters.
In how many ways can Paulo choose the posters to be posted?

6. How many different hands of 13 cards can be dealt among 4 players from a deck
of 52 cards?

7. How many sums can be formed from the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5?