Instructor: Conrad Perez

Student: Jennifer Tofan

Course: Math 21 Online (52031) - Spring Assignment: 8.2
Date: 05/01/23
2023

A company sells regular hamburgers as well as a larger burger. Either type can include​cheese, relish,​lettuce, tomato,​mustard, or ketchup.
a. How many different hamburgers can be ordered with exactly 6 ​extras?
b. How many different regular hamburgers can be made that use exactly 6 of the​extras?
c. How many different regular hamburgers can be ordered with at least 5 ​extras?

Permutations are arrangement of​elements, so order of the elements matters and elements cannot be listed more than once in the
arrangement. Combinations are​subsets, so the order of the elements does not matter and elements cannot be listed more than once.

The order in which the items are chosen is not important.​Therefore, use combinations.

Use the formula for combinations of n items taken r at a time.

n!
C(n,r) =
(n − r)!r!

a. There are 2 sizes of hamburgers and 6 different extras and all 6 of the extras can be used for making one hamburger.​Therefore, n is 6 and
r is 6 in the formula for the number of different combinations.

Therefore, the number of different hamburgers that can be made as described is the number of different combinations of extras multiplied
by​2, the number of ways 1 hamburger can be chosen from the 2 sizes. Solve for the number of different burgers.

6!
N=2•
(6 − 6)! • 6!
=2

b. There are 6 different extras and all 6 of them can be used for making one regular hamburger.​Therefore, n is 6 and r is 6 in the formula for
the number of different combinations. .

To find the number of different regular hamburgers N that can be made using any 6 of the​extras, use the formula for combinations.

 
6!
N=
(6 − 6)! • 6!
=1

c. The number of different regular hamburgers that can be made with at least 5 extras is found by computing the number of ways 6 extras can
be used and adding the number of ways 5 extras can be used.

Compute the combinations.

C(6,6) = 1
C(6,5) = 6

Add these values to find how many different regular burgers can be made with at least 5 extras.

6+1=7