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Notes On Permutations and Combinations
Notes On Permutations and Combinations
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Permutations A selection of a of objects in
group
which order is important The number of
permutations of n objects taken r at a time
is given
by
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A motorcycle license plateconsists of 5 digits that
are randomly selected
e No digit is repeated what is
the probability of getting a license plate consisting
of all even digits nn Yampuspan p
The sample space the number of permutations
n s is
of 5 digits selected from 10 items
tofu n s Is 54
10 9.87 6
5133,1
Sdigits n 5 10 9 8 7 6 30,210
The event space n A is the number of permutations of
a license plate with all even digits
find
n A Pg
g 054 5 4 3 2 1 120
even
P A IT o 004
A combination is a selection of objects from a
group in which order is not important The number
of combinations of n r time
objects taken at a is
given by Ks'sIn s a
CI
riff
or
520
There are 4 boys and 8 girls on the debate team
the coachrandomly chooses 3 of the students to
participate in a competition What is the probability
that the coach chooses all girls
The sample space n s is the number of
combinations of 12 students taken 3 at a time
s
13 17
3,14
220
31 31 3
P A 2 0
255 25.5
94
A 715
C
1321
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PCA
RI 1 6
0478 4.8
I É 54.9554
194 14
45 10 1 176
PCA 1719 17 2
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