SOLUTION: True or False? The number of permutations of two items from a data set is always two times the number of combinations when taking two objects at a time from the same data set. Expl

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Question 442400: True or False? The number of permutations of two items from a data set is always two times the number of combinations when taking two objects at a time from the same data set. Explain.
I know that it is false, I'm just not sure how to explain it.

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

No, that's true because for instance from the letters

A,B,C,D

The 6 combinations of 2 are

{A,B}, {A,C}, {A,D}, {B,C}, {B,D}, {C,D}

where the order does not matter.

And since every one of those can be made into 2 permutations,
where order matters,

{A,B} can be made into the two permutations AB and BA.
{A,C} can be made into the two permutations AC and CA.
{A,D} can be made into the two permutations AD and DA.
{B,C} can be made into the two permutations BC and CB.
{B,D} can be made into the two permutations BD and DB.
{C,D} can be made into the two permutations CD and DC.

There are 6 combinations (where order does not matter), 
and 12 permutations (where order does matter), so the
proposition is true, not false.

Edwin





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