Finding Outcomes — Test Answers

Each of the teams in a mixed volleyball league consists of 5 men and 5 women. There are 9 men and 10 women, including Julia, who are trying out for a team. How many possible teams would include Julia?

A standard deck of 52 cards contains 13 cards with hearts, 13 with diamonds, 13 with clubs, and 13 with spades. How many 7-card hands are possible with 2 hearts, 2 diamonds, 2 clubs, and 1 spade? Assume that the order of the cards does not matter, and use the formula for combinations to find your answer.

Evaluate the expression.

Brent’s after-school game club has 12 members from which a six-member team is created. Miguel’s after-school sports club has 10 members from which a six-member team is created.Which student’s club has more possible combinations for his six-member team?

There are 12 teams, each representing a different country, in a women’s Olympic basketball tournament. In how many ways is it possible for the gold, silver, and bronze medals to be awarded? Use the formula for permutations to find your answer.

There are 4 seats available at a table in the lunch room of an elementary school, and 12 students are looking for seats. In how many ways can the seats at the table be filled with 4 of these 12 students?

Sonji bought a combination lock that opens with a four-digit number created using the digits 0 through 9. The same digit cannot be used more than once in the combination.If Sonji wants the last digit to be a 7 and the order of the digits matters, how many ways can the remaining digits be chosen?

Jillian has three different bracelets (X, Y, and Z) to give to her friends as gifts in any order she prefers. If bracelet Y is chosen first, in how many ways can Jillian give out the bracelets?

A department store is hiring for the positions of manager, associate manager, and assistant manager. If 15 people have applied for all the positions and are equally qualified for each position, in how many ways can the positions be filled?

Evaluate the expression.4! • 3!

How many ways can eight letters be arranged into groups of five where order matters and the first two letters are already chosen?

Three out of seven students in the cafeteria line are chosen to answer survey questions.How many different combinations of three students are possible?

A president and vice president will be selected from among 35 members of a board. Should permutations or combinations be used when determining the number of possible ways these offices can be filled?

Dorianna packed enough blouses, skirts, and belts in her suitcase to make 24 different outfits. If she packed 4 skirts and 2 belts, how many blouses did she pack?

Which statement is true?

Fiona needs to choose a five-character password with a combination of three letters and the even numbers 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8.If she uses her initials, F, J, and S in order as the first three characters, and she does not use the same digit more than once in her password, how many different possible passwords are there?

Fiona chooses three towels from a group of five to pack in her beach bag for herself and her two brothers. Let the five towels be represented by A,B,C,D, and E.If Fiona chooses towel A for herself, which statements about the possible outcomes for her brothers’ towels are true? Select three options.There are 10 possible ways to choose the group of towels.The combination BC is not the same as CB.She has four choices for the first brother’s towel and three choices for the second brother’s towel.ABC, ABD, ABE, ACD, ACE, and ADE are the possible outcomes.If Fiona did not choose towel A for herself, there would be more outcomes.

A baseball team’s roster consists of 25 players with 13 position players and the rest being pitchers. The team’s batting order for a particular game consists of 9 players. The first 8 places in the batting order are taken by position players. The last place is taken by a pitcher. How many batting orders are possible? Use the formula for permutations to find your answer.

Which expression represents the number of possible permutations of n items taken r at a time?