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Worksheet 5
More exercises on permutations and combinations
1. Suppose a lawyer must select 4 jurors from a set of six candidates? How many groups are
possible?
2. How many ways can 3 runners be selected for the Olympics from a field of 5 contestants?
3. How many ways can the first 3 places being awarded in a race involving 5 contestants
(excluding ties)?
4. How many ways can the positions of president and vice president be assigned from a group
of 8 people?
5. Find the number of hugs possible in a family of 5 people (no repeat hugs).
6. You have 9 families you would like to invite to a wedding. Unfortunately, you can only invite
6 families. How many different sets of invitations could you write?
7. Suppose we have to select 5 managers from a list of 10. How many ways can this be done?
Give the correct expression that gives the answer.
8. Suppose we have to select a manager, assistant manager, and night manager from a list of 10
people. How many ways can this be done? Give the correct expression that gives the answer.
9. How many ways can a 3-card hand be selected from a standard 52-card deck? Give the
correct expression that gives the answer.
10. Three cards are selected randomly and given to 3 players. How many possibilities exist?
Give the correct expression that gives the answer.
11. A card is select from a standard deck of cards, then put back and the deck is shuffled. This is
done 3 times. How many 3-card hands can you receive?
12. Suppose a 5-card hand is selected from a standard deck of cards. How many ways can
the following be done?
a) Select 3 Kings and 2 Aces
b) Select exactly 3 fours.
c) At least 4 hearts
13. From how many elements can we assemble 120 permutations without repetition?
14. How many players participated in the tournament in table tennis, where 21 matches were
played and each player played with each other exactly once?
15. From how many elements can we create 15 combinations without repetition with choose
2?
16. Five girls, from which two are sisters, are standing in one line in the sports hall. How many
ways there exists to set the girls so that the sisters were standing next to each other ?
17. Calculate the number of possible different configurations of ten books on the shelf, where
four detective novels are to be next to each other.
18. The hockey team has 20 players: 13 attackers, 5 defenders and 2 goalkeepers. How many
different formations a trainer can form if the ice formation is to have 3 attackers, 2 defenders
and 1 goalkeeper ?
19. In how many ways can we put on the tailor thread 3 red, 4 blue and 5 yellow beads ?
20. Five girls, from which two are sisters, are standing in one line in the sports hall. How many
ways there exists to set the girls so that the sisters were standing next to each other ?
21. In how many ways can in the cinema sit next to each other seven friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, if
buddy B sits on the seat no. 4 and buddy G sits on the seat no. 2 ?
22. How many possibilities of seating arrangements exists here for friends A, B, C, D, E, where
buddy A sits next to the buddy C ?
23. How many possible ways there is for 12 visitors of the cinema to sit in one row, if each of
the six married couples wants to sit next to each other?
24. At a Fiat dealership a total of 3 cars of a particular model must be transported to another
dealership. If there are 25 cars of this type, how many choices are available for transport?
25. At a Fiat dealership a total of 3 cars of a particular model must be transported to another
dealership. If there are 25 cars of this type, how many ways can they be loaded onto the truck
for transport?
