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Question 973263: How many possibilities are there for arranging 5 cups and 5 glasses if all the glasses have to stay together? I can figure this out for the 10 possibilities for the cups and glasses, but the fact that the glasses have to stay together is throwing me off. Thanks
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Question 973398: A test include the following components 8 true- false questions; five multiple-choice questions, each with three choices and five multiple-choice questions, each with four choices. How many different list of answers are possible for this test
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Question 973787: 1. Your English teacher has given you a list of 10 possible topics for essays. You need to pick four topics from the list to write about over the school year.
2. How many ways can six kids line up in a single row to have their picture taken?
3. Use the counting principle to determine the number of possible outfits that can be created using one item from each category.
7 shirts
6 pairs of pants
6 pairs of socks
4 hats
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Question 975064: In an engineering college committee, a president needs to be elected out of 15 eligible candidates. Of these 15 candidates, 7 are female candidates (3 in 3rd year, and rest in 4th year) and 8 are male candidates (5 in 3rd year, and rest in 4th year). What is the probability that the candidate elected is a female from 4th year?
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Question 975221: There are seven children to be lined up in a straight line for a photograph
A. How many different ways possible?
b. How many different ways are possible if Sally must be in the middle?
c.How many different ways are possible if Ahmed is on the far left?
d. How many different ways are possible if Hannah and Brian must be together?
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Question 975402: A particular new car model is available with five choices of color, three choices of transmission, four types of interior, and two types of engines. How many different variations of this model care are possible?
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Question 973681: How many ways can the letter in the word OPTIMISM be rearranged?
What I did:
2 Is, 2 Ms, 1 O, 1 P, 1 T, 1 S = (8,2)(6,2)(4,1)(3,1)(2,1)(1,1)
which I got
Did I do that correctly?
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Question 976392: A business employs 125 staff, each of whom has a number from 1 to 125 assigned to them. Three are chosen to participate in a survey. A calculator generates the following three random numbers:
0.051
0.847
0.219
Find the employee numbers of the people who will be chosen to participate in the survey.
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Question 976611: Four married couples have brought 8 seats in a row for a concert. In how many different ways can they be seated
a. with no restrictions?
b. if each couple is to sit together?
c. if all men sit together to the right of all women?
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Question 976610: If a multiple-choice test consists of 5 questions each with 4 possible answers of which only 1 is correct,
(a) In how many different ways can a student check off one answer to each question?
(b) In how many different ways can a student check off one answer to each question and get all the answers wrong?
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Question 976619: Which of the following pairs of events are mutually exclusive?
A. A golfer scoring the lowest 18-hole round in a 72-hole tournament and losing the tournament.
B. A poker player getting a flush and 3 of a kind on the same 5-card hand.
C. A mother giving birth to a baby child and a set of twin daughters on the same day.
D. A chess player losing the last game and winning the match.
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Question 976727: Given the stem and leaf plot shown below, which shows the scores made on an English test, find (a) mean, (b) mode, (c) median, (d) range, (e) the variance (c) the standard deviation of the scores?
(Left side | right side of stem and leaf plot)
10 | 0
9 | 2, 4,5
8 | 1,2,7,9
7 | 1,1,3
6 | 1,2,8
5 | 1,5
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