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Question 1119875: A bag contains 7 red marbles, 9 white marbles, and 9 blue marbles. You draw 5 marbles out at random, without replacement. What is the probability that all the marbles are red? What is the probability that exactly two of the marbles are red? What is the probability that none of the marbles are red?
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Question 1120190: a boy has 3 library tickets and 8 books of his interest in the library. of these 8, he does not want to borrow chemistry part 2, unless chemistry part 1 is also borrowed. in how many ways can he choose the three books to be borrowed?
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Question 1120228: a tea party is arranged for 16 people along two sides of a long table with eight chairs on each side. four particular men wish to sit on one side and two particular men on the other side.the number of ways they can be seated?
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Question 1121027: They are six kids they are celebrating their birthday, they are three boys and three girls, but they are each different ages. The youngest is 1 year old. The sum of the ages of the three girls is the same as the sum of the ages of the three boys. What is the smallest possible total of all six ages?
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Question 1121027: They are six kids they are celebrating their birthday, they are three boys and three girls, but they are each different ages. The youngest is 1 year old. The sum of the ages of the three girls is the same as the sum of the ages of the three boys. What is the smallest possible total of all six ages?
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Question 1121121: Can you help me solve this word problem please?: A man bought two vanilla ice cream cones, three chocolate cones, four strawberry cones, and one pistachio cone for his ten children. In how many ways can he distribute the flavors among children?
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Question 1121121: Can you help me solve this word problem please?: A man bought two vanilla ice cream cones, three chocolate cones, four strawberry cones, and one pistachio cone for his ten children. In how many ways can he distribute the flavors among children?
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Question 1122248: Luanne has seven frozen dinners -- two of them are the same kind of mushroom ravioli and the other five are the same kind of vegetable lasagna. Luanne is making plans to eat one of the dinners each day for the next seven days. How many different seven-day meal plans are possible?
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Question 1122247: Paige Turner loves finite mathematics. She has 4 books about probability and 3 books about matrices.
How many ways can she place these books on the same shelf in a row if:
a) there are no restrictions.
b) the books about probability are next to each other but the others could be anywhere on the shelf.
c) books are organized by their topic (probability books are next to each other and matrix books are next to each other).
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Question 1122447: Donna is merging the Bedford branch and the Spencer branch of her real estate agency. As a result, she must make some personnel decisions. She currently has seven employees in the two branches. She must select one of the seven to be the acting manager, two of them to be transferred to Indy, and one of them to be laid off. How many different ways could she do this?
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Question 1122446: Luigi's Pizza has a very simple menu. They only sell pizza, and it only comes in one size. They don't have different varieties of crusts or sauces or cheeses. When you order a pizza, all you specify is which toppings, if any, you want on it. They offer eight toppings: sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, spinach, pineapple, and anchovies. They do not allow duplicate topping orders; for example, you can't order a pizza with pepperoni and extra pepperoni.
How many different six-topping pizzas are possible at Luigi's Pizza?
How many different six-topping pizzas are possible if mushrooms must be one of the toppings?
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Question 1122444: A standard deck of cards consists of four "suits" (clubs, diamonds, hearts,
and spades), with each suit containing thirteen cards of different "ranks"
(ace, 2 through 10, jack, queen, and king) for a total of fifty-two cards in
all. One often refers to the cards held by a player in a card game as their
"hand"; technically, a hand of cards can be thought of as a subset of the
deck of cards.
How many five-card hands are there that consist of exactly two queens and three kings kings?
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Question 1122445: Paige Turner loves finite mathematics. She has 5 books about probability and 4 books about matrices. Her friend Anita Tudor wants to borrow four of these books.
How many ways can Paige choose the books to lend Anita if:
a) there are no restrictions?
b) there are two books on each topic (i.e. two matrix books and two probability books)?
c) there is at least one book on each topic?
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