AMC8 [1] Combinatorics - Permutations and Combinations (1)

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Ex 1. How many 3-digit passwords are possible where each digit is a number from 0 to 9?

Ex 2. Betty has 1 wrapping paper in each of 4 different colours: red, yellow, blue or grey.
She needs to wrap all of them around a gift box in some order. How many ways are
there for her to do this?

Ex 3. Find the number of ways to arrange 4 different pencils in the pencil case.

Ex 4. There are 4 different animes in Spring Season of 2023. Every member in the Wibu Club
watches the animes in a different order. What is the maximum number of members in
the Wibu Club?

Ex 5. Kate has 7 different stamps and is making a Christmas card where she puts 4 different
stamps in a line. How many different Christmas card designs can she make?

Ex 6. Evaluate 9 P4 .

Ex 7. Find the number of ways of selecting a president, a vice president, a secretary and a
vice secretary from a group of 9 people.

Ex 8. How many 4-digit numbers have all digits distinct?

Ex 9. How many 4-digit numbers exist such that the first digit is odd, and the other 3 digits
are even and all digits distinct?

Ex 10. How many 5-digit palindromes are there? (Note that a palindrome is a number that
reads the same forward and backward).

Ex 11. How many 6-digit numbers exist such that all the digits are distinct, and its first two
digits are 6 or more, the last digit are 5 or less, and the third digit is a nonzero multiple
of 7?

Ex 12. How many ways are there to arrange 5 people in a circle if rotations are not counted
as distinct orientations?

Ex 13. How many ways are there to arrange 6 people around a circle such that 2 of the people,
Arrietty and Bobby, must sit next to each other. Note that rotations are not counted
as distinct orientations.
 Q1. Evaluate 6 P3 and 7 P2 .

Q2. How many 3-digit numbers exist with all odd digits?

Q3. How many 3-digit numbers exist with all even digits?

Q4. How many 3-digit odd numbers are there with distinct digits?

Q5. If you have Arrietty, Bobby and Ceta; and you need to choose two of them to be the
team captain and the vice team captain of the badminton team, how many ways are
there to do this?

Q6. Find the number of ways of selecting a team captain, a vice team captain and a
secretary from a group of 10 people?

Q7. Find the number of 4-digit numbers with all of its digits distinct.

Q8. Find the number of ways to arrange 5 different CDs on the CD shelf.

Q9. How many ways are there to pick your most favourite and least favourite books amongst
6 books?

Q10. There are 10 students in a Maths Olympiad Competition. How many ways are there
to select the winners of the golden, silver and iron medals?

Q11. How many 4-digit numbers are not palindromes?

Q12. (You can use calculator for this problem) A special type of license plate includes 3
distinct letters at the beginning and 4 single digit numbers after. How many such
license plates exist?

Q13. (2006 AMC10A) A license plate in a certain state consists of 4 digits, not necessarily
distinct, and 2 letters, also not necessarily distinct. These six characters may appear
in any order, except that the two letters must appear next to each other. How many
distinct license plates are possible?

Q14. There is a school race with 12 students.How many different ways to award to gold,
silver and bronze medals if no ties are possible?

Q15. (2015 AMC8) How many integers between 1000 and 9999 have four distinct digits?
Q16. (2015 AMC8) The Dragonvale Middle School chess team consists of two boys and
three girls. A photographer wants to take a picture of the team to appear in the local
newspaper. She decides to have them sit in a row with a boy at each end and the three
girls in the middle. How many such arrangements are possible?

Q17. (2018 AMC8) Professor Chang has nine different language books lined up on a book-
shelf: two Arabic, three German, and four Spanish. How many ways are there to
arrange the nine books on the shelf keeping the Arabic books together and keeping the
Spanish books together?

Q18. (2020 AMC8) How many integers between 2020 and 2400 have four distinct digits
arranged in increasing order?

Q19. (2014 MATHCOUNTS) How many permutations of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 have 1 before
3 and 2 before 4? (One such permutation to include is 2134.)

Q20. (2017 AMC10) Alice refuses to sit next to either Bob or Carla. Derek refuses to sit
next to Eric. How many ways are there for the five of them to sit in a row of 5 chairs
under these conditions?

Q21. (2020 AMC8) Zara has a collection of 4 marbles: an Aggie, a Bumblebee, a Steelie,
and a Tiger. She wants to display them in a row on a shelf, but does not want to put
the Steelie and the Tiger next to one another. In how many ways can she do this?

Q22. Alice, Bob, Claire, Dave, Emma are sitting around a round table. Alice refuses to sit
next to Bob. How many different ways can they sit around the table? (Rotations of
the same arrangement are not considered different).

Q23. 7 people are lining up for a photograph. If the 2 tallest people must be at 1st and 7th
positions in any order and the shortest person must be in the center, how many ways
are there for them to line up?

Q24. Five distinct boys and four distinct girls are going to have lunch together around a
table. They decide to sit down one by one under the following conditions: no boy will
sit down when more boys than girls are already seated, and no girl will sit down when
more girls than boys are already seated. How many possible sequences of taking seats
exist?
Ex14. How many ways can I select 3 pencils from 6 different pencils?

Ex15. How many ways are there to choose a committee of 3 people from 6 people?

Ex16. Evaluate  
6
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3

Ex17. You are working on a team project, and you have to choose 7 of the 10 problems to
work on. How many ways are there to do this?

Ex18. You are working on a team project, and you have to choose 7 of the 10 problems to
work on. However, the first 2 problems are required for every member of the team, so
they are chosen already. How many ways are there to do this?