LT3 Combinationpermutation
LT3 Combinationpermutation
LT3 Combinationpermutation
2019-2020
SCORE: _____________
DIRECTIONS: EXPRESS EACH PROBLEM IN COMBINATION OR PERMUTATION NOTATION AND THEN SOLVE.
STRICTLY NO ERASURES.
1. How many ways can you arrange the letters in the word PROBABILITY, if it starts with P and ends with Y?
2. How many ways can 8 knights of the Round Table be seated if one of them must sit to the right of King
Arthur?
3. The covered walk of a school is to be lined with flags. How many different arrangements are there if 5 flags
are blue, 3 flags are red, and 2 flags are white?
4. A pianist plans to play 5 pieces at a recital. In how many ways can she arrange these pieces in the program?
5. How many ways can an investigation committee be formed from a set of 5 teachers and 7 student leaders if a
committee contains 3 teachers and 4 student leaders?
6. How many line segments can be drawn by 8 points, no three of which are collinear?
7. Ten tourists find a hotel with three rooms available: a room for 2 people, a room for 3 people and a room for 5
people. In how many ways can the tourists be assigned to these rooms if one couple wants the room for 2
people for themselves?
8. If a ship has only 5 flags, and two of them are alike, with which to send signals, how many different signals
can be sent if all flags are used?
9. A bank teller is needed in each of the 7 branches. If there are 10 equally qualified applicants, in how many
ways can the job be filled?
10. How many ways can 6 different keys be arranged on a key ring?
11. A special class is made up of 12 boys and 8 girls. Four officers are elected. How many different sets of
officers will contain a president and secretary from the girls, and vice-president and treasurer from the boys?
12. Ten points lie on a circle. How many inscribed pentagons can be drawn having these points as vertices?
13. In how many ways can the vertices of a regular hexagon be named with the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F?
14. In how many ways can the father, mother and three children be seated at a round table if father and mother
must sit opposite each other?
15. A test has 2 parts. In part A, a student must answer 6 out of the 10 items. In part B, a student must answer 3
out of the 5 items. In how many ways can this be done?
16. How many 3-digit numbers can be formed from the digits 1,2,3,4, 5, 6,7, 8 and 9, if repetition of digit is not
allowed?
17. If 6 persons enter a bus on which there are 10 vacant seats. How many ways are there for the six to be
seated?
18. A committee of 3 members is to be formed from 5 men and 6 women. The committee must include at least 2
women. In how many ways can this be done?
MATHEMATICS 10 LONG TEST #2 THIRD GRADING S.Y.2019-2020
19. In how many ways can 7 students be seated at around table, if two particular students must not be seated
next to each other?
20. How many different 9-letter words can be formed from the letters in the word COMMITTEE?