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Question 576797: Five girls and five boys are getting together for a party.Suppose one of the boys has 2 sisters amoung the five girls, and he would not accept either of them as a partner.How many couples can be formed
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Question 576127: Mia has four math books, three novels and two books of poetry. She wants to arrange them on her shelf so that all the math books are together on the left end of the shelf, all the novels are together in the middle, and the books of poetry are together on the right end. How many possible arrangements of the books are possible?
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Question 577935: Question 1: In how many ways can a chairperson and a vice chairperson be selected from a committee of 28 senators? Can someone reply to this ASAP please. Last problem on an exam quiz. Thanks.
I came up with 378? Is that correct? If I am in correct please explain what I did wrong. Thanks.
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Question 578164: I am trying to figure out the combination on my safe that I forgot. I contacted a locksmith and my options are try to figure it out or as a last resort he has to drill the door. It is a 6 digit electronic lock. Gives you 2 tries then have to wait 5 minutes. I'm almost certain I used 581 which is part of a certain number of mine backwards. lol How can I figure out all the posible combinations to try? Thank you! My email is snowman800@lycos.com
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Question 578493: An exam consits of four true/false questions followed by five multiple choice questions each with 3 answers.
A) How many ways can a student answer the exam if they answer all of the questions?
B) How many ways can a student answer the exam if they can leave true/false questions blank?
C) How many ways can a student answer the exam if they can leave any of the questions blanks?
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Question 579592: My sister and I are having problems with the process of elimination.
We have to solve the story problem given:
The football team has 45 members. There are twice as many juniors as seniors. How many of each are on the team?
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Question 580258: Three men and ten women are to line up for a picture with the three men in the middle. How many ways can this be done? (Assume there are five women on each side of the group of men)
The answer is 21772800 but i have no idea how to attain it. Thanks!
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Question 580715: A restaurant offers 6 salads, 3 soups, 5 entrees, 4 desserts, and 6 beverages. if you choose one from each category, how many different meals can you order?
I'm not sure how you would do this,would you take 6x3x5x4x6 and just multiply them?
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Question 581670: DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the basis of most genes. DNA is made of nucleotides. Each nucleotide can contain any one of these four nitrogenous bases is a linear sequence: A (adenine), G (guanine), C (cytosine), T (thymine). If an experimenter wishes to create a gene with a sequence of 9 bases, where bases can be repeated and order matters, how many different sequences are possible?
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Question 581671: A lotto is conducted where you have to choose 4 numbers from 1 to 17 (no repetition of numbers allowed). If your combination of numbers matches the one drawn, you win the grand prize. How many different combinations of numbers are there for this lotto? (Hint: order does not matter)
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Question 582198: A student planning her curriculum for the upcoming year must select one of four business courses, one of five mathematics courses, two of eleven elective courses, and either one of two history courses or one of five social science courses. How many different curricula are available for her consideration?
Please help! Thank you!
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