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Question 239964: ann has 7 books she wants to put on her bookshelf how many posible arrangments
are there?
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Question 240193: how many three person teams can be chosen from a group of five people?
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Question 240223: How many five-letter passwords can be made if no letters are repeated?
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Question 241099: (n+2)!/n!=56
where n=N
my answer: n= 7

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Question 241104: an octagon has 8 sides. How many diagnals does an octagon have??
my answer is 28 diagnals.
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Question 241278: You order twelve burritos to go from a Mexican restaurant, five with hot peppers and seven without. However, the restaurant forgot to label them. If you pick three burritos at random, find the probability that at least two have hot peppers. (Round the answer to three decimal places.)
My mother told me 0.36 but my teacher said it was wrong. Could you please help me.
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Question 240369: how many ways can you arrange the word equal

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Question 241523: A poker hand consists of five cards from a standard deck of 52. Find the number of different poker hands of straight (five cards of consecutive denominations: A, 2, 3, 4, 5 up through 10, J, Q, K, A, not all of the same suit). (Note that the Ace counts either as a 1 or as the denomination above King.)

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Question 241520:
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Question 241589: Will we ever run out of combinations of numbers for Social Security?
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Question 242011: how many arrangements of the letters in the word bread can be made
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Question 242112: how many different license plates are possible using 2 letters followed by 3 digits if letters can be repeated?
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Question 242367: There are 10 boys and 15 girls. How many different gruops of 4 boys and 3 girls can you have? I just would like to know how to solve this problem
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Question 242559: ho wmany ways can the letters of the word ABACUS be rearranged?
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Question 242763: A lottery has 52 numbers. In how many different ways can six of the numbers be selected? (Assume that order of selection is not important.)
what principle is used in this question?
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Question 242997: How many zip codes (5 digits) would there be if the first two digits had to be odd, and there would be no repeat digits?
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Question 243101: I am having a dinner party with five fuests. I have 11 friends from which to choose as guests.
From how many different collections of five dinner guests can i choose if two are married to eachother and won't come seperatly?
From how many different collections of five dinner guests may she choose if two are divorced from eachother and refuse to come together?
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Question 243684: Question: Use a tree diagram showing all possible results when four fair coins are tossed. Then list the ways of getting the indicated result of more than two tails.
Hi! I could use a hand, please, on the question above on my homework. I have been working with a tree diagram and I keep getting VERY confused. One coin is easy, when I get to 4 - forget it!
Thank you so very much!!

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Question 244491: How do you solve for a when (a-3)squared = 5-10a?
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Question 244908: What is the probability that an integer between 1 and 50 inclusive is divisible by 3 or 4? Do this problem without enumerating all the numbers.
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Question 245890: A class contains 13 boys and 15girls .how many different ways can the class pick a president,vice-president and secretary?
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Question 245966: Can you please tell me if I have this right? If not, can you please explain... Thanks sooo much!
Assume a class has 30 members. How many committees of three people can be chosen?
I have:
30*29/3=290
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Question 246869: A test consists of 13 questions. Each student must choose a group of 10 questions. How many different groups of questions could be chosen.
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Question 247083: How many different 5-digit codes can be made using the numbers 0-9 if repitition is permitted?
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Question 246637: Given set A={a,b,c,d}, how many different 2-letter arrangements of A are there?
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Question 247357: In the past, a local telephone number in the U.S. consisted of a sequence of
two letters followed by five digits. Three letters were associated with each number from 2
to 9 (just as in the standard telephone layout shown in the figure) so that each telephone
number corresponded to a sequence of 7 digits. How many different sequences of 7 digits
were possible?
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Question 248855: how many ways can a committee of 3 men and 3 women be formed from a group of 9 men and women
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Question 248211: How many different license plates are possible with two letters followed by three digits?
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Question 249532: a group of 6 men and 4 women.... three people are selected to attend a conference.
in how man ways can group of 3 women be selected from the 4
if all groups are equally likely to be selected whats the probability that the group will conisist of all women
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Question 246478: Ok so: There are 15 questions on a multiple-choice exam and five possible answers to each question.
(a) In how many ways can the exam be answered? (I put 5^15 is that correct? Since the questions are all distinct, and any number of questions could be answered for example a out of a,b,c,d,e.)
(b) In how many ways can the exam be answered with exactly 8 answers correct? (Is this 5^7?)
Thanks
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Question 249759: How many 4-digit numbers can be formed from the Set A = (0,1,2,3,4,5,6) if there is no repetition.
My answer is n=6*6*5*4 = 720 4-DIGIT numbers can be formed.
How many of the numbers in part a are divisible by 5? (You must consider 2 cases.)
My answer is 720/5=144
what is the 2 cases I should be looking at?
Pls help
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Question 249766: A pharmacist uses 5 seperate weights. 1G, 2G,4G,8G,16G. If the pharmacist can combine these weights to create new weights, how many different weights are possible?

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Question 249916: find the first five terms in the expansion of (r-2s)^8
My answer.
1r^8, 8r^7(-2s)^1, 28r^6(-2s)^2, 56r^5(-2s)^3, 70r^4(-2s)^4
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Question 249997: What is the probability that both Barb and Bob are both on the same committee of 4 which is chosen fom their class of 10 people?
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Question 250270: find the term not involving y in the expansion of { 1/y^3 + y^2)^5
Pls explain- I am super lost my textbooks don't give me any questions like this.

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Question 250624: how many different five letter codes can be made using only the letters A,B,C,D? letters may be repeated.
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Question 250716: In a 9 team league where everyone plays each other once, I figured there would be 36 games total. Was I correct? But I did not use an equation, I drew it out. What is the simple way to figure the number of games played regardless of the number of teams?
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Question 250995: Three boys: Andre, Boyd, and Charlie; and two girls: Deanna and Edith; are standing in line for lunch. If the boys and girls alternate in line, how many different ways could they line up?
A.8 B.10 C.12 D.24 E.120

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Question 251177: A computer with an old processor locks up if more than 4 applications are running simultaneously. If the owner has 20 applications stored in his program file. How many different sets of 4 can he run, so that his computer does not lock up.
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Question 251382: A test has 20 questions and students are asked to answer only 7 of them. In how many ways can a student choose the seven?
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Question 251382: A test has 20 questions and students are asked to answer only 7 of them. In how many ways can a student choose the seven?
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Question 251520: There are 14 different types of nails in the hardware store, You plan to buy 5 different types of boxed nails. How many different combinations are there?
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Question 251521: 6^P4
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Question 251519: 5^C2 + 5^C1
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