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2. Find the number of ways 4 members from a family of 5 can line up for a photo shoot.
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3. In how many ways can letters of the set {R, S, T, U} be arranged to form ordered codes of 2
letters? (no letters are repeated)

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4. A license plate begins with 3 letters. If the possible letters are A, B, C, D and E, how
many different permutations of these letters can be made if no letter is used more than
once?

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5. In how many ways can a president, a treasurer and a secretary be chosen from among 7
candidates?

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6. A teacher wants to write an ordered 6-question test from a pool of 1O questions. How
many different forms of the test can the teacher write?

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7. Twelve skiers are competing in the final round of the Olympic freestyle skiing aerial
competition. In how many different ways can 3 of the skiers finish first, second, and third to win the
gold, silver, and bronze medals?

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8. You are considering 10 different colleges. Before you decide to apply to the colleges, you want
to visit some of all of them. In how many ways can you visit 6 of the colleges? In how many ways
can you visit all 10 colleges?

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. .. ·nd the number of permutations of the letters of these words.

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13. How many 4-digit numbers can be made from the digits 4, 5, 6, 7 if no digit is repeated in the
same number?

a.) How many of the numbers are greater than 7000?

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b.) How many of the numbers end in a 7?
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c.) How many of the numbers are less than 6000?

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14. How many ways can 8 friends be arranged around a camp fire?

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15. A person has 10 ornaments including a clock, of which only 7 ornaments will fit on the
mantelpiece. If the clock must go in the center, how many different arrangements can be made with
the ornaments?
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16. How many ways can 13 books be arranged on a shelf if 3 of them are identical math books and 4
of them are identical science books? ;
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17. 8 friends always sit at the same round lunch table in the cafeteria. What is the probability that
Joe and Ryan will sit next to each other?
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18. A professor was asked to rank the top 5 students in her class of 22. In how many ways can she
do that?

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19. Given the word WILDCAT, how many arrangements of the letters are possible if the T must be in
the second position?
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20. You must create a new password for your online school account. The password must be made
up of 4 letters followed by 2 number digits. How many arrangements are possible if no letters or

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