Counting Principles, math homework help

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Option #1: Counting Principles #1

  1. A scrambled word game challenges the user to create three-letter words (nonsense words included) from five different letters. If a letter cannot be used in a word more than once, how many potential words can be created?
  2. How many license plates containing seven characters can be created from letters and numbers if the first two characters must be uppercase letters and the last five characters must be digits from 0 to 9? Repetition of numbers is allowed. Repetition of letters is not allowed.
  3. How many ways can you rank your top three movies from the 38 movies on your laptop?

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Option #1: Counting Principles #1
Question 1
Number of ways you can choose 3 letters from a list of five words 5C3=>
=5! / (5-3)! *3! =>10
For each of the sets obtained above, the letters are unique hence the three letter words can be
arranged in 3!
=10*3!
=10*3*2*1
=60 times.

Question 2
There are 26 Alphabetical letters from which we can choos...


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