FACT OR BLUFF

Identify if the given situation is

permutation or combination. If
permutation, say FACT,
otherwise BLUFF.
 1. You can arrange 3 students in 6 different
arrangements.
2. Given 2 shirts and 3 pants. There are 5
different ways of matching it.
3. Forming a committee from the members of a
club
4. Assigning telephone numbers to subcribers
How do the situations differ from each
other? Analyze the given situations below.
Situation 1.” My fruit salad is a combination
of pineapples, melon and bananas”
Situation 2. “The combination of my ATM pin
code is 4720”.
Situation 3. “An arrangement of Mathematics
books, Science books, and English books on a
shelf”
It is very important to make the
distinction between
permutations and combinations.
In permutations, order matters
and in combinations order does
not matter
 Study the following situations. Then, answer the
questions that follow.
1. Choosing 2 household chores to do before dinner
2. Selecting 5 basketball players out of 10 team
members for the different positions
3. Choosing three of your classmates to attend your
party
4. Picking 6 balls from a basket of 12 balls
5. Forming a committee of 5 members from 20
people
Questions:
a. In the items above, identify which situations
illustrate permutation and which illustrate
combination.
b. How did you differentiate the situations that
involve permutation from those that involve
combination?
 At Dexter’s pizza parlor there are
three different toppings (all meat,
pepperoni, shawarma) to choose
from, where a costumer can order any
number of these toppings. If you dine
in a said pizza parlor, with how many
possible toppings can you actually
order your pizza?
 Who am I?
 
Identify which situations illustrate permutation and which
illustrate combination, then solve.
1. Determine the top five winners from 6 contestants
(1,2,3,4,5,6) in a mathematics quiz bee.
2. Choosing 2 household chores to do before dinner from 4
different chores (cooking, washing, marketing, scrubbing).
3. Forming a committee of 4 members from 5 people (Alma,
Brando, Charlie, Dhana, Ella).
4. Four people ( Ivy, Cheska, Neil, Max) posting picture in a
row.
 Who am I?
 
Identify which situations illustrate permutation and which
illustrate combination, then solve.
1. Determine the top five winners from 6 contestants
(1,2,3,4,5,6) in a mathematics quiz bee.
2. Choosing 2 household chores to do before dinner from 4
different chores (cooking, washing, marketing, scrubbing).
3. Forming a committee of 4 members from 5 people (Alma,
Brando, Charlie, Dhana, Ella).
4. Four people ( Ivy, Cheska, Neil, Max) posting picture in a
row.