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Principle of
Counting
Permutations
Combinations
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PRACTICE!
Determine whether each of the following
situations is a Combination or Permutation.
1.Creating an access code for a computer
site using anyPERMUTATION
8 alphabet letters.
2. Determining how many different ways you
can elect a Chairman and Co-Chairman of a
PERMUTATION
committee if you have
10 people to choose
PERMUTATIONS
There are basically two types of permutation:
Answer this.
1. A toxicologist would like to test
the effectiveness of three new
insecticides on rice fields, but he
has 7 different locations of
barangays. How many different
tests could he perform using the 3
strains of insecticide 1 for each
barangay?
210 experiments
P(n, r) = nPr
P
7 3
experiments
a) numbers
b) three-digit numbers
a) permutations
b) permutations
c)
a)
COMBINATIONS
There are basically two types of permutation:
Examples:
1. In a hospital with 20 medical doctors, how many ways can
we select 5 at a time to be in the operating room?
Formula:
2. Given 5 sets of medicines, in how many ways can we select
sets of (a) 2? (b) 3?
3. A bottle contains 4 red, 3 blue, and 2 white vitamin
capsules. In how many ways can we select 3 capsules with (a)
one for each color? (b) all red? (c) two blue and one white? (d)
exactly two blue? (e) no white? (f) at least two red? (g) at
most 2 red?
because
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0factorial.html
0! = 1
1)( ? )
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3ri6b0/why_
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