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    The document contains a series of word problems involving permutations and combinations. There are 37 problems calculating things like the number of arrangements of letters, numbers being arranged in lines or circles, factorials being simplified, and equations being solved for variables involving permutations. The document also provides the answers to the problems at the end.

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    Permutations

    Evaluate
    1. 4P3 2. 7 P5 3. P7
    10 4. P3
    10

    5. How many 5 digit numbers can be named using the digits 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 without
    repetition?, with repetition?

    6. How many 4 digit numbers can be named using the digits 2, 3, 4, and 5 without
    repetition?, with repetition?

    7. In how many ways can 5 students be arranged in a straight line?, in a circle?

    8. In how many ways can 7 athletes be arranged in a straight line?, in a circle?

    9. In how many distinguishable ways can the letters of the word DIGIT be arranged?

    10. In how many ways distinguishable ways can the letters of the word RABBIT be
    arranged?

    11. How many 7 digit phone numbers can be formed with the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
    8, and 9, assuming that no digit is used more than once and the first digit is not 0?

    12. A program is planned to have 5 rock numbers and 4 speeches. In how many ways
    can this be done if a rock number and a speech are to alternate and the rock
    numbers come first?

    13. Suppose the expression a2b3c4 is rewritten without exponents. In how many ways
    can this be done?

    14. Suppose the expression a3bc2 is rewritten without exponents. In how many ways
    can this be done?

    15. In how many ways could King Arthur and his 12 knights sit at his round table?

    16. In how many ways can 4 people be seated at a bridge table?

    17. A penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and half-dollar are arranged in a straight line.
    a. Considering just the coins, in how many ways can they be lined up?
    b. Considering the coins and heads and tails, in how many ways can they be lined
    up?

    Math 150 1 Permutations and Combinations


    18. A penny, nickel, dime and quarter are arranged in a straight line.
    a. Considering just the coins, in how many ways can they be lined up?
    b. Considering the coins and heads and tails, in how many ways can they be lined
    up?

    19. Compute 52P4. 20. Compute 50P5.

    21. A professor is going to grade her 24 students on a curve. She will give 3 A's, 5 B's,
    9 C's, 4 D's, and 3 F's. In how many ways can she do this?

    22. A professor is going to grade his 20 students on a curve. He will give 2 A's, 5 B's, 8
    C's, 3 D's, and 2 F's. In how many ways can he do this?

    23. How many distinguishable code symbols can be formed with the letters for the word
    MATH? BUSINESS? PHILOSOPHICAL?

    24. How many distinguishable code symbols can be formed with the letters for the word
    ORANGE? BIOLOGY? MATHEMATICS?

    25. A state forms it license plates by first listing a number that corresponds to the county
    in which the car owner lives (the names of the counties are
    alphabetized and the number is its location in that order).
    Then the plate lists a letter of the alphabet, and this is
    followed by a number from 1 to 9999. How many such plates
    are possible if there are 80 counties?

    26. How many code symbols can be formed using 4 out of 5 letters of A, B, C, D, and E
    if the letters:
    a. are not repeated?
    b. can be repeated?
    c. are not repeated but must begin with D?
    d. are not repeated but must end with DE?

    Simplifying the following factorials:

    27. 28.
    29. 30.
    31. 32.

    Solve for x:

    33. P5 = 7×xP4
    x 34. P4 = 8×x – 1P3
    x

    35. P5 = 9×x – 1P4


    x 36. P4 = 8×xP3
    x

    37. 14×xP3 = x + 2P4 38. P5 = 18×x – 2P4


    x

    Math 150 2 Permutations and Combinations


    Answers

    Permutations

    1. 24 3. 604,800 5. 120; 3125


    7. 120; 24 9. 60 11. 544,320
    13. 1260 15. 479,001,600 17. a) 120 b) 3840
    19. 6,497,400 21. 16,491,024,950,400 23. 24
    25. 20,797,920 27. 29. n+1
    31. 33. 11 35 9
    37. n = 5, 6

    Math 150 3 Permutations and Combinations

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