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Permutation Vs Combination
Quiz by Rosalie Espinosa
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From the 20 DVD's you purchased this past year, you plan to take five with you on vacation. How many different sets of five DVD's can you take?
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Sarah plays softball over the summer. If there are 10 players on the team, how many ways can the coach make a batting order that includes all players?
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There are 125 juniors at the high school. How many ways can they elect a president, vice president,and secretary?
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Ashlyn needs to bring a dessert to her dinner party. If the bakery has eight pies to choose from, how many ways can Ashlyn choose three?
Rob and Mary are planning trips to 9 countries this year. There are 13 countries they would like to visit. They are deciding which countries to skip.
When does the order in which you are choose matter?
Determine whether the following scenarios are a permutation or a combination:
Selecting a lead and an understudy for a school play.
How many ways can two jellybeans be chosen from a bag of 15 unique jellybeans.
Form a passcode with 4 digits
How many ways can you choose a manager and assistant from a 9-person task force?
Eva has eight glasses of water. In how many different orders can the glasses of water be arranged?
Four students need to be selected from a class
of 15 to help clean up the campus. How many different ways can the 4 students be chosen?
A Mathematics test contains five different questions labeled A, B, C, D, and E. You are supposed to choose 2 to answer. How many different ways are there to do this?
The batting order for seven players on a 12 person team.
In the orchestra, there are eight violinists in the front row. How many different ways can they be seated?
How would you solve?A book club offers a choice of 8 books from a list of 40. In how many ways can a member make a collection?
A disc jockey has to choose three songs for the last few minutes of his evening show. If there are nine songs that he feels are appropriate for that time slot, then how many ways can he choose and arrange to play three of those nine songs?
What term refers to several ways of selecting items from a large set of objects, such that their order does not matter?