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Question 1093801: If you were given a five-question multiple choice test that has four possible answers for each question (a,b,c,d), how many ways could you answer all the questions on the test if you do not put down the same answer for two consecutive questions?
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Question 1093789: The total no. Of no. Less than 1000 and divisible by 5 formed with 0,1,2.......9 such that each digit does not occur more than once in each no.is
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Question 1093792: In term of question no.(41) what is rank or order if word ZENITH in the dictionary?
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Question 1093792: In term of question no.(41) what is rank or order if word ZENITH in the dictionary?
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Question 1094038: If yu have 5 copies of one book 4 copies of each two books 6 copies each of three books and single copy of 8 book yu arrange it in_______no. Of ways
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Question 1094339: from a group of 7 men and women, a 4 person committee is chosen. what is the probability that all 4 are men or all 4 are women?
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Question 1094318: Determine whether the following problem involves a permutation or combination. (It is not necessary to solve the problem.) Explain why you chose your answer.
Out of 17 boys, 9 are to be chosen to play on the baseball team. Consider the possibilities.

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Question 1094502: A radio disc jockey has 8 songs on this upcoming hour's playlist: 2 are rock songs, 2 are reggae songs, and 4 are country songs. The disc jockey randomly chooses the first song to play, and then she randomly chooses the second song from the remaining ones. What is the probability that both songs are rock songs? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.
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Question 1094501: A certain committee consists of
18
people. From the committee, a president, a vice-president, and a treasurer are to be chosen. In how many ways can these
3
offices be filled? Assume that a committee member can hold at most one of these offices.
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Question 1094499: A pizza parlor has a choice of
11
toppings for its pizzas. From these
11
toppings, how many different
8
-topping pizzas are possible?
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Question 1094636: a company president presents identical awards to four out of six finalists. in how many ways can she present the awards?
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Question 1094738: If there are 25 students in the class and we need to select a President and Secretary for our meetings, how many possibilities are there?
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Question 1094837: how many 5 digit even number greater than 40000 that can be obtained using the digit 1,2,4,5,7,8 if repetition of digit is allowed?

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Question 1094934: How to calculate the sequence number for a license plate that has 3 Letters and 4 digits. For example what is the numerical sequence number for BJK 9999
Thank you
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Question 1095144: In how many ways can 7 different book be arrange on a shelf such that the specificed book be at either end
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Question 1095162: if a lottery game was based on choosing 7 numbers from the integers 1-50 with another number chosen from the integers 1-28 what is the probability of choosing the numbers for the winning jackpot?
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Question 1095550: A cupboard contains 8 pairs of
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Question 1095640: How many subsets of the set A B C D E F contain the letter B but not the letter C
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Question 1095620: How many distinguishable permutations can be made of the letters in the word STEGOSAURUS?
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Question 1095608: Thirteen people are going to watch a soccer match in three cars that will hold 3, 5, and 6 passengers respectively. In how many ways is it possible to transport the thirteen people to the stadium in one trip using all cars?
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Question 1095609: A school teacher has 6 girls and 8 boys to arrange for a choir. Determine the number of ways she can arrange the 14 children,
a) if the boys should stand behind the girls.
b) in a single row, if the girls must be kept together.
c) in a single row, if no two girls should stand next to each other.

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Question 1096032: four men, two women and a child sit at a round table. find the number of ways of arranging the seven people if the child is already sitted
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Question 1096046: A 5-character password must be chosen by arranging the characters 1, 2, A, B, and @. The password must start with a letter. How many different passwords are possible?
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Question 1096176: The president must be a female but three particular females do not want to be included in the set of officers.
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Question 1096183: How many ways can a school organization officers consisting of a president, a vice-president, a secretary, and a treasurer be formed from 6 males and 7 females, if;
a. Any of them is qualified to any position.
b. The president must be a male.
c. The president and the vice president must be a male and female respectively?
d. The president must be a female but three particular females do not want to be included in the set of officers.
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Question 1096350: Hi, I am having trouble figuring out how to solve this following problem:
A real estate office has 10 sales agents. Each of four new customers must be assigned an agent.
(a) Find the number of agent arrangements where order is important.
(b) Find the number of agent arrangements where order is not important.
I have considered using methodologies such as assigning a customer name to each sales agent such as assigning customers 1,2,3,4 to agent 1 all the way to 37,38,39,40 to agent 10 and attempting to switch the customers around so that every possible combination is found. I know this is a combination problem, but I do not know how to apply the formula.

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Question 1096397: How many 5-card hands out of a 52-card deck are full house? Full house is
formed by any three cards of the same denominations plus any pair of a different denomination.
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Question 1096479: A director of a music video show wishes to play 4 rap videos and 3 R&B videos. He has 10 rap and 5 R&B videos to choose from.
If we consider the order in which the videos are played, how many different line-ups can the show have?
Note that no video can be used more than once.
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Question 1096519: If you rotate a sheet of paper by 180 degrees, digits 0, 1, and 8 do not change; 6 becomes a 9; 9 becomes a 6; while other digits lose their meaning. Count all the 7-digit numbers that do not change upon rotation by 180 degrees.
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Question 1096555: If you were to solve at least 1 but at most 5 problems from this set of 10 problems, how many problem subsets are there that may be solved?
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Question 1096554: If you were to solve at least 1 but at most 5 problems from this set of 10 problems, how many problem subsets are there that may be solved?
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Question 1096803: In how many ways can the letters of the word WINNIPEG be arranged if the letters W, P, and G must remain in the same order they appear in the word?
I have arranged 8 spots for the letters and placed W, P, and G in their spots. There are only 5 spots left now, where do I go from here?
Thanks
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Question 1096685: Winning the jackpot in a particular lottery requires that you select the correct four numbers between 1 and 56 and, in a separate drawing, you must also select the correct single number between 1 and 51. Find the probability of winning the jackpot
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Question 1096968: How many ways are there to pick any 5 cards from 52 cards, that 2 cards are the same denomination or 3 different numbers?
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Question 1096960: 2+6+10+14+18+22+26+30+34+38 ish me se kisi 5 ank ko lekr 100 purana h ???

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Question 1096948: What's the sum of all the three-digits numbers I can form from digits 0-9 if
REPITITION is PROHIBITED
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Question 1096948: What's the sum of all the three-digits numbers I can form from digits 0-9 if
REPITITION is PROHIBITED
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Question 1096948: What's the sum of all the three-digits numbers I can form from digits 0-9 if
REPITITION is PROHIBITED
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Question 1097232: A student is writing a 10-question multiple choice test. Each question has 4 choices: A to D. How many different sets of answers can the student give?
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Question 1097365: Ten boys and ten girls sit alternately in a row and the alternately along a circle. What is the rotation of number of ways of sitting in a row to the number of ways of sitting along a circle?
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Question 1097650: How many different 4-letter permutations can be formed from the letters in the word "DECAGON"?

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