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Assignment Permutation and Combination

The document presents a series of combinatorial problems involving selections from different groups, including Economics and Mathematics books, students in a class, council members from various parties, participants in a reality show, and a group of babies. Each problem requires calculating the number of ways to select specific combinations under various conditions. The problems cover topics such as permutations, combinations, and restrictions on selections.

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Assignment Permutation and Combination

The document presents a series of combinatorial problems involving selections from different groups, including Economics and Mathematics books, students in a class, council members from various parties, participants in a reality show, and a group of babies. Each problem requires calculating the number of ways to select specific combinations under various conditions. The problems cover topics such as permutations, combinations, and restrictions on selections.

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Assignment Permutation and Combination

1. On my desk, I have 5 different Economics books and 7 different Mathematics books.


a. In how many ways can I select 3 Economics Books?
b. In how many ways can I select 4 Mathematics Books?
c. In how many ways can I select 6 different books ?
d. In how many ways can I select 6 books if I choose an equal number of Economics
and Mathematics Books.
e. In how many ways can I choose 4 books, if I choose more Mathematics books
than Economic books?
2. My first A Level Class contained 5 girls and 8 boys. I needed to select four of them for a
competition. In how many ways could I have done this if
a. I wanted all boys;
b. I wanted exactly two girls;
c. I wanted at least two girls?
3. A council contains 10 Labour members, 4 Conservative members and 6 Liberal
Democrat members. In how many ways can I select a committee of 6 of them if
a. only Labour members can be picked;
b. no Conservatives can be picked;
c. there must be equal numbers of members of each party;
d. there must be at least three Liberal Democrats.
4. A Reality Show needs to pick a group of 6 from a group of 5 no-hopers, 6 has-beens and
4 never-weres. In how many ways can this be done if
a. exactly 4 must be no-hopers;
b. none of them can be no-hopers;
c. there are at least 4 has-beens;
d. the number of has-beens is equal to the number of never-weres.
5. A group of 14 babies contains 6 boys and 8 girls, including Evie and Ben. In how many
ways can I select 6 of the babies if I want to choose
a. more girls than boys;
b. a group that contain neither Evie nor Ben;
c. exactly one of Evie or Ben;
d. equal numbers of boys and girls, but only one of Evie and Ben.

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