Combinations

Example 1: In a sequence of 10 coin tosses, how many ways can 3

heads and 7 tails come up?
Solution: The number of ways of choosing 3 heads out of 10 coin tosses
is .
Example 2: In the Powerball lottery, you pick five numbers between 1
and 55 and a single “powerball” number between 1 and 42. How many
possible plays are there?
Solution: Order here doesn’t matter, so the number of ways of
choosing five regular numbers is .
We can choose among 42 power ball numbers. These events are not
mutually exclusive, thus we use the product rule.

So the odds of winning are .

Unsolved Questions
1. How many possible committees of five people can be chosen from
20 men and 12 women if
a) If exactly three men must be on each committee? [Answer=]
b) If at least four women must be on each committee?
[Answer=+=10692]
2. From a group of 7 men and 6 women, five persons are to be selected
to form a committee so that at least 3 men are there in the committee.
In how many ways can it be done? (Answer: 756)
3. In a group of 6 boys and 4 girls, four children are to be selected. In
how many different ways can they be selected such that at least one
boy should be there? (Answer: 209)
4. Out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words of 3 consonants
and 2 vowels can be formed? (Answer: 25200)