‘9. 4 was specitied in the chapter’ «ny waperimenter was r t wasn't important, There vg interested in combinations. Order of components specifying permutations, be many more possible outcomes if we were There are 3,024 possible 2 the nine sights arrangements of the assignments of the four awards to ™ PY = py = 2! ot (0 — ai * 7968-76 = 3,024 There are 24 arrangoments of the four lotters in team: PY= Pps ateacgeae1 = a6 The 24 are shown in the table on tho noxt pago. Four of them (circled) are English words, so the probability of getting an English word when these four letters are ordered randomly is Ys = Yo, TMEA TMAl ETAM ETMA, EATM, EAMT EMTA EMAT There are 126 possible groupings: 9! Bla! © CY =C}= = 126 s a There are 24 possible orderings: PN = Pi = 4! = 24 Using the number 2 to represent the two-word condition, the number 4 to represent the four-word condition, etc., the possible orderings are shown in the table below. 2408 4268 2406 4286 2648 4628 2684 4682 2046, 4826 2064 4062 If there were three subjects assigned to cach ordering, there would be 3 X 24 = 72 subjects needed for the experiment. . This is a combinations problem rather than permutations because we are inter- ested only in the groupings, not the particular arrangemonts of those groupings. ‘The number of possible groupings of 5 experimental subjects taken from the 10 students in the classroom is 252: 10! ce = Scanned with Carhavioral Sciences This question is just like problem 7 except that now we are selecting the five 8. experimental subjects from only the six males: 6! 7 Cg = Tis! 7 6 The order in which subjects are selected does not matter. We are only enumer. ating the number of different groupings, not the number of different arrange- ments. 9. 10. Scanned with Car