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Summative Test - Combinations

This document contains a 10 question quiz on mathematical permutations and combinations. It also contains 3 additional word problems asking the reader to identify whether each situation involves permutations or combinations and explain why. The additional problems ask the reader to calculate the number of arrangements for a class presentation and the number of possible dinner combinations at a Chinese restaurant given constraints on the number of items that can be selected from different columns on the menu.

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Summative Test - Combinations

This document contains a 10 question quiz on mathematical permutations and combinations. It also contains 3 additional word problems asking the reader to identify whether each situation involves permutations or combinations and explain why. The additional problems ask the reader to calculate the number of arrangements for a class presentation and the number of possible dinner combinations at a Chinese restaurant given constraints on the number of items that can be selected from different columns on the menu.

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Quiz 2

Mathematics 10

Part 1: write the letter that you think best answers the question.
1. What do you call the different arrangements of the objects of the group?
a. selection c. permutations
b. differentiation d. combination
2. Which situation illustrates permutation?
a. Forming a committee of councilors
b. Selecting 10 questions to answer out of 15 questions in a test
c. Choosing 2 literature books to buy from a variety of choices
d. Assigning rooms to conference participants
3. It is the selection of objects from a set.
a. Combination c. Permutation
b. Differentiation d. Distinction
4. Which of the following situations illustrates combination?
a. Arranging books in a shelf
b. Drawing names from a box containing 200 names
c. Forming different numbers from 5 given digits
d. Forming plate numbers of vehicles
5. Which of the following situations does not illustrate combinations?
a. Selecting fruits to make a salad
b. Assigning telephone numbers to home
c. Choosing household chores to do after classes
6. Which of the following expressions represents the number of distinguishable permutations of the letters
of the CONCLUSIONS?
a. 11! 11 !
11! c.
b. 2! 2 ! 2 !
8! 11!
d.
2! 2 ! 2 !2!
7. A certain restaurant allows you to assemble your own vegetable salad. If there are 8 kinds of vegetables
available, how many variations of the salad can you make containing at least 5 vegetables?
a. 56 c. 93
b. 84 d. 96
8. Calculate P(12, 4).
a. 40, 320 c. 990
b. 11, 880 d. 4

9. How many different 3-digit numbers can be possibly formed from the digits 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 if repetition of
digits is not allowed?
a. 840 c. 360
b. 720 d. 120

10. Miss Cruz plotted some points on the board, no three of which are collinear. When she asked her
student to draw all the possible lines through the points, he came up with 45 lines. How many points
were on the board?
a. 10 c. 8
b. 9 d. 7

Part 2. Determine if the problems/situations involve permutations or combinations, then explain


why. (5 points)

1. Evan, his girlfriend, and 5 of his other friends are going to the movies. Evan wants to be sure
that he sits next to his girlfriend, and is curious how many different ways he and his friends can
be arranged to sit in the same row. Is this a combination problem or a permutation problem?
How can you tell?
2. Your sports team is planning a trip to a nearby town, about 2 hours away by bus. The driver will
allow each rider to bring 2 electronic devices for the trip. You have access to a smartphone, a
tablet, an mp3 player, and a laptop computer, and you are curious how many options that allow
you to choose. Is this a combination problem, or a permutation problem, and why?
3. The back of the box of jellybeans that I have says that there are hundreds of different flavor
combinations possible by eating multiple beans at the same time. If I wanted to calculate how
many possibilities there were if eating only two beans at a time, would that be a permutation
calculation, or a combination calculation?
Part 3: Solve for the following questions. Incomplete solutions will not be given full points.
1. 6 boys and 8 girls will have a presentation in class today. If the teacher is going to allow the
girls to go first, how many different arrangements are there for the presentation?
2. At a Chinese restaurant, dinner for 8 people consists of 3 items from column A, 4 items from
column B and 3 items from column C. If columns A, B and C have 5, 7 and 6 items respectively
how many different dinner combinations are possible?

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