COUNTING TECHNIQUES

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1. A newly married couple is planning to have three children. List
the elements of the sample space S using letter M for male and F
for female.

2. Suppose that 3 items are selected at random from a

manufacturing process. Each item is inspected and classified
defective (D) or non-defective (N). List the elements of the
sample space S.

3. In how many ways can an MVP be selected in a league with 9

teams and each team has 12 players in its roster.

4. How many 4-digit numbers can be formed using 1,2,3,5,8,9.

a. if repetition is allowed?
b. if the number can only appear once?
c. if it is even number (without repetition)?
d. if the numbers are odd (with repetition)?

5. If a car dealer has 5 model line-up and each model has 6

colors to choose from, how many ways can a customer choose
his car?

6. A jar contains 40 cookies, 15 are bingo, 8 are cream-o, 12 are

presto, 5 are hi-ro. If you are to select 5, how many ways can you
select such that
a. all the cookies are the same?
b. 3 bingo and 2 hi-ro?
c. all are presto?
d. one cream-o?

7. In how many ways can Chot Reyes fill his first five for the PBA
finals if all of his 14 players can play all positions?

8. In jai-alai game there are ten players. In how many ways can a
bettor win, if he must select the top three finishers to win?

9. In how many ways can 6 people seat

a. in a row?
b. if 3 people insisted to be seated together?
c. if there are only 3 seats available?
d. if a pair dont want to be together?
e. around a table?

10. How many ways can the letters of the word LETTERS be
arranged?

11. Christmas lights has 50 bulbs. And there are 5 different colors
of bulbs (10 of each color). How many ways can the bulbs
a. be arranged?
b. be arranged where the same color are next to each other?

12. In a meeting of G20 (where there are 20 countries), a

country will be represented by one person.
a. How many handshakes will occur?
b. If the American representative wont shake hands with the
Chinese and the Russian leaders, how many handshakes are
possible?
13. How many ways can an ace, a jack, a queen, a king be drawn
in a deck of 52?

14. How many ways can you select questions in this problem set
if you are allowed to omit 3? (questions with a ,b, c, d and es
are considered as one question)

15. In how many ways can 10 Engineering students be

selected from 20?

16. List the elements of each of the following sample spaces:

a. The set of integers between 1 and 50 divisible by 8.
b. The set S = {x| x 2 4x 5 0 }

17. Use the rule method to describe the sample space S that
consists of all points (x,y) on the boundary or in the interior
of a circle of radius 3 centered at the origin.

18. How many lunches are possible consisting of soup, a

sandwich, dessert, and a drink if one can select from 4 soups,
3 kinds of sandwiches, 5 desserts, and 4 drinks?

19. How many ways can 7 people be assigned to 1 triple and 2

double rooms?

20. An engineer wishes to build 9 houses, each different in

design. In how many ways can he place these homes on a
street if 6 lots are on one side of the street and 3 lots are on
the opposite side?

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