USE OF

COMBINATION
IN
PROBABILITY
 COMBINATION
 The arrangement or grouping of objects without taking
into consideration their order.
 It refer to a sequence of outcomes where the order does
not matter.

Example:
When you’re ordering a pizza, it doesn’t matter whether
you order it with ham, mushrooms and olives or olives,
mushrooms and ham. You’re getting the same pizza.
 COMBINATION WITH

REPETITION
When the outcomes in a combination can repeat, you have repetition.

Where:
n = the number of options.
r = the size of each combination.

! – represents a factorial.
 EXAMPLE:
 Imaginewe own a pizza restaurant an we have six toppings
from which customers can choose. We have a special offer
for pizzas with three toppings. How many potential
combinations fall under our special?.

Where;

n=6
r=3
SOLUTION:
 COMBINATIONS
WITHOUT REPETITION
 When the outcomes cannot repeat, you are working with combinations
without repetition.

FORMULA:
 EXAMPLE:
 Imaginea process that draws five people to be on a
team out of a pool of 30. The order in which the
process draws team members does not matter.
Suppose a team comprises A,B,C, D, E. That is
equivalent to a team where the same people were
drawn but in a different order.

Where;
n = 30
r=5
SOLUTION: