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    Counting Sample Points Problems

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    This document contains 20 math word problems involving combinations, permutations, and other counting principles. The problems cover a range of topics including forming numbers from digits, selecting committees from groups of people, arranging objects in different configurations, and counting possible outcomes of events. The level of difficulty of the problems increases throughout the document.

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    Counting Sample Points Problems

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    This document contains 20 math word problems involving combinations, permutations, and other counting principles. The problems cover a range of topics including forming numbers from digits, selecting committees from groups of people, arranging objects in different configurations, and counting possible outcomes of events. The level of difficulty of the problems increases throughout the document.

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    This document contains 20 math word problems involving combinations, permutations, and other counting principles. The problems cover a range of topics including forming numbers from digits, selecting committees from groups of people, arranging objects in different configurations, and counting possible outcomes of events. The level of difficulty of the problems increases throughout the document.

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    Counting Sample Points Problems

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    Reina
    This document contains 20 math word problems involving combinations, permutations, and other counting principles. The problems cover a range of topics including forming numbers from digits, selecting committees from groups of people, arranging objects in different configurations, and counting possible outcomes of events. The level of difficulty of the problems increases throughout the document.

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    Problems:

    1. How many numbers of three different digit less than 500 can be formed from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7? 2. There are five main roads between cities A and B, and four between B and C. In how many ways can a person drive from A to C and return, going through B on both trips, without driving the same road twice? 3. In how many ways can a class elect a governor, a vice-governor, a beadle and a co-beadle from a class of 48 students? 4. In how many ways can seven different colored beads be made into a bracelet?

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    5. In how many ways can a committee of 5 members be selected from 24 senators ?

    6. A college plays 12 football games during a season. In how many ways can the team end the season with 7 wins, 3 losses and 2 ties?
    7. In how many ways can a caravan of 8 covered wagons from Arizona be arranged in a circle? 8. How many three digit numbers divisible by 5 can be formed from the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 without repetition of digit?

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    9. In a basketball team, there are 3 centers, 4 guards and 5 forwards. How many possible first fives does the coach have if he has to field one center, two guards and two forwards? 10. During Ludys birthday party, she is expecting 28 guests. Suppose that each of the 28 guests shakes hands with all the others and that no two people shake hands more than once. How many handshakes will there be in all? 11. How many games are there in the elimination round of a basketball tournament with 10 teams participating if each team has to play against every other team?

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    12. A building has 5 outside doors. In how many ways can a person enter and leave a. By any door? b. By a different door? 13. In how many ways can four boys and four girls be seated in a row containing eight seats if a. They may sit anywhere in the row? b. The boys and girls must alternate? 14. How many different ways can a chairperson and an assistant chairperson be selected for a research project if there are seven scientists available? 15. In how many ways can 8 people be seated in a row of 8 seats if two persons insist on sitting next to each other?

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    16. High school faculty are to be issued special coded identification cards that consist of four letters of the alphabet. How many different ID cards can be issued if the letters can be used more than once? 17. Suppose now that the letters in the high school identification codes cannot be repeated, how many different identification cards can be created? 18. In how many ways can a group of five players on the varsity boys basketball team be chosen from a team of 14 players? 19. How many ways can a group of three students be selected from a class of 21 students? 20. How many permutations are there for the letters in the word, HAPPY?

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