Permutation and Combination

7!

• 4050
• 5400
• 5040
• 4500

₂₀P₂

• 20
• 380
• 6840
• 116280

What does ₁₀P₅ mean?

• Permutations with 5 choices and 10 positions
• Permutations with 10 choices and 5 positions
• Permutations with 5 numbers and 10 operations
• Permutations with 5 hot dogs and 10 drinks

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

• Combination
• Permutation

Permutation, combination, or neither?
Rob and Mary are planning trips to 9 countries this year.  There are 13 countries they would like to visit.  They are deciding which countries to skip.

• combination
• permutation
• neither

Permutation, combination, or neither?
The batting order for seven players on a 12 person team.

• combination
• permutation
• neither

Is the order of arrangement important?
Find the number of ways to form a team of three players for a game out of a group of 10 individuals.

• Yes
• No

Permutation, combination, or neither?
There are 45 applicants for three Computer Programmer job positions.

• combination
• permutation
• neither

Find the number of words, with or without meaning, that can be formed with the letters of the word ‘CHAIR’.

• 5

• 3125

• 120

• 25

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

• 12

• 60

• 15

• 125