Department of Education

Schools Division Office of Makati City

Makati Science High School
Kalayaan Avenue, Barangay Cembo, Makati City
School Year: 2022 – 2023
PROBLEM SET 3.1 on Fundamental Counting Principle
and Permutation
Mathematics 10
School Year 2022-2023
DIRECTIONS: Solve the following problems. Show your complete solution and BOX your final
answer. Due on March 2, 2023
1. A car model comes with the following choices: 7 colors, with or without air conditioning,
with or without sunroof, with or without automatic transmission, with or without a spoiler,
and with or without anti-lock brakes . In how many ways can the car be ordered? (2 MARKS)

2. Find the number of ways can 3 nurses and 4 engineers be seated on a bench with the
nurses seated together. (2 MARKS)

3. There are 5 cards with number 10 on them, 6 cards with number 100 on them and 3 cards
with number 500 on them. How many distinct sums are possible using from 1 to all of the 14
cards? (3 MARKS)

4. How many 5 character license plates can be made if the first 3 characters are letters and
last 2 characters are numbers if
a. repetition of characters is allowed but the first letter must be a B, A, S, K, C, or P?
(2 MARKS)

b. repetition of characters is not allowed but the first letter must be a B, A, S, K, C, or P?

(2 MARKS)

c. repetition of letters are not allowed but repetition of numbers are allowed? (2 MARKS)
5. Find the number of ways in which the 5 teachers (Arnel, Daisy, Ralmond, Joy and Edith)
can be seated at a round table, such that Ralmond and Joy must always sit together. (2
MARKS)

6. Using the digits 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8, how many different three-digit numbers can you form
according to each of the following rules.
a. Each digit may be repeated any number of times in a number. (2 MARKS)

b. The numbers are even numbers and no digit appears more than one in a number. (2
MARKS)

c. There is a 5 in the ones place and no digit appears more than once in a number. (2
MARKS)

7. How many different numbers of 4 digits may be made from digits 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7:
a. if digits are not repeated? (2 MARKS)

b. How many of these numbers will be even? (2 MARKS)

c. How many of these numbers will be greater than 5000? (2 MARKS)

d. How many of these numbers will be less than 6000? (3 MARKS)

e. How many of these numbers will start with an even number and end in an odd
number? (3 MARKS)

8. Find the number of permutation in the word SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS. (2

MARKS)
9. Four copies of mathematics books, 5 copies of history books, and 6 copies of English books
are covered with covers of different colors for each kind of book. In how many different ways
can they be placed on a shelf? (2 MARKS)

10. Two towns A and B are connected by 3 roads and towns B and C by 4 roads. In how many
ways can one drive from A to B to C and return to A via B if:
a. the same road is not to be travelled twice; (2 MARKS)

b. The same road may be travelled twice? (2 MARKS)

11. Four couples are to eat at a round table with the mean and women alternating. If the
hostess reserves a place for herself, in how many ways can she assign seats to the others? (3
MARKS)

12. A fair coin is tossed seven times. How many ways can the outcome be composed of
a. 2 heads and 5 tails (3 MARKS)

b. at least 2 heads (3 MARKS)

13. How many distinct books are there if there are 5040 ways of arranging them in a shelf? (4
MARKS)

14. Consider the grid map, how many routes are there to take from point A to point B, if only
the directions south and west are possible? (4 MARKS)