Mathematical Investigation:

Application of Counting principle in our

daily life situation
 Introduction
Math is a beautiful
abstract game, worth
investigating just for its
own sake.
It also happens to have lots of interesting and
useful applications.
People use basic principles of combinatory in
everyday situations.
Combinatory is all about development and
applications of counting principles.
A topic combinatory problem begins with “In
how many ways or find the number of ways“.
 Getting Started

Ms. Maribeth is picking what to

wear to school. She has two shirts,
two pants and two pairs of shoes.
 📌How many possible
combinations of outfits she
does?

📌What ways can you find to

efficiently count the number of
combinations?
 Exploring
🌹Mix and match these two shirts, two pants and
two pairs of shoes to find different combinations.

🌹 Use models of all the possible outcomes, and

experimental results, to compare the chances of
different outcomes.
🍂We turn first to counting. While this sounds
simple, perhaps too simple to study, it is not.
When we speak of counting, it is shorthand
for determining the size of a set, or more
often, the sizes of many sets, all with
something in common, but different sizes
depending on one or more.
 Making Conjecture

♡ We can label every outfit combinations

to 1,2,3, or 4…. n and then see how many
ways we can mix and match them.
Combination 1: 1Shirt 1 Pants 1Pair of shoes

Combination 2: 1shirt 1 pants 2 Pair of shoes

Combination 3: 1shirt 2 Pants 1 Pair of shoes
Combination 4: 1shirt 2 Pants 2 Pair of shoes
However this would take a
way too long …………….
 Verifying Conjecture:

The process of knowing the number of outfits

combinations we can use the Tree Diagram. It is a
device used to list all possibilities of a sequence
of events in a systematic way.
However this would take way too long, so
an easier way would be to use the
"choose formula". Which is

nCr
 Justifying Conjecture

nCr
Where n is the number of objects to choose from,
and r is the number of objects to be arranged.
 2C1 2C 1 2C 1
Shirt Pants Pair of shoes

 NOTE: They are all 2C1 because we have 2 of each

and only 1 place to arrange each one. Shirt on her
chest, pants to her legs and shoes on her feet.
 2 2 2
Shirt Pants Pair of shoes

We now multiply all of this together because that will tell us the amount of ways she can arrange all
of the outfit combinations.
 2x2x2=8

She has 8 total outfit combinations.

Conclusion:
✨In this investigation we learn about
systematically organising pairings of outfits, to
find all the possible combinations. It considers
efficient ways to count the number of
combinations. Finding all the combinations is
part of a theoretical approach to probability.
Experimental results from selecting t-shirt,
pants and pair of shoes randomly are likely to
vary considerably from the predicted
frequencies.
Thank
You
 Ogaban, Jhamil
Hespayo, mia mhariz m.
Guarte, Maribeth Q.
Capati, Ma. Isabel