Permutations and Combinations

How many ways can a club select a president, vice president, and a secretary from a group of 5 people?

• 12
• 60
• 15

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.9

How many ways can you listen to 3 songs from a CD that has 12 selections?

• 1320
• 33
• 36

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.9

Homecoming has 7 candidates for King. How many ways can a King and a First Runner-up be chosen to form the Festival Court?

• 23

• 840

• 42

• 3,628,800

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.9

Picking a President, Vice-President, and Secretary from a group of 12.

• Permutation
• Combination

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.9

How many ways ways can you arrange the letters in the word math?

• 15
• 4
• 24

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.9

What does the P stand for in _nP_r?

• Partners
• Positions
• Papers
• Permutations

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.9

Determine whether the following scenarios are a permutation or a combination:
 
Selecting a lead and an understudy for a school play.

• Combination
• Permutation

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.9

Choosing 3 toppings for your sundae out of a list of 15.

• Permutation
• Combination
• Neither

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.9

Sarah plays softball over the summer.  If there are 10 players on the team, how many ways can the coach make a batting order that includes all players?

• 1
• 3628800
• 100
• 1814400

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.9

How many ways ways can you arrange the letters in the word finite?

• 336
• 720
• 6

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.9