NCM4-6.4

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

• 12
• 60
• 15

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

• 1320
• 33
• 36

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

• Combination
• Permutation

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

• Permutation
• Combination
• Neither

How many 2-digit numbers can you make using the digits 1, 2, 3, & 4 without repeating the digits?

• 90
• 100
• 12
• 24

How would you solve?
From the 20 DVD's you purchased this past year, you plan to take five with you on vacation.  How many different sets of five DVD's can you take?

• Permutation
• Combination
• Factorial
• MPC

The ski club with ten members is to choose three officers for captain, co-captain and secretary.  How many ways can those offices be filled?

• 720
• 120
• 10!

Ashlyn needs to bring a dessert to her dinner party. If the bakery has eight pies to choose from, how many ways can Ashlyn choose three?

• 336
• 56
• 24
• 100

Erik gets to choose from five cake flavors, seven icing flavors, and three topping flavors. If he can only choose one of each flavor,  how many cakes are possible?

• 35
• 573
• 21
• 105

A disc jockey has to choose three songs for the last few minutes of his evening show.  If there are nine songs that he feels are appropriate for that time slot, then how many ways can he choose and arrange to play three of those nine songs?

• 84
• 504
• 9!
• 3!