Ch 1 Permutations & Combinations

1 2009/ACJC/Prelim/2/5

A family of five wishes to go for lunch at their favourite restaurant. They hopped
into their family car which has two front seats and enough space for three persons [1]
behind. Find the number of seating arrangements in the car if only the father can
drive.

At the restaurant, the family was shown to a round table with five seats. Find the [2]
number of ways the family members could seat themselves if the youngest child
insisted on sitting with her mother.

If the family was asked to sit at a round table with six seats which were numbered [3]
from 1 to 6 instead, find how many ways the family members could seat
themselves if the youngest child still insisted on sitting with her mother.
[4!; 12; 288]
2 2009/AJC/Prelim/2/6
In a ceremony, ten flags, consisting of 3 red, 5 blue and 2 yellow, are arranged in a
straight line for decoration. The flags are identical apart from the colour.

Find the number of ways in which the flags can be arranged if

(i) there are no restrictions,

[1]
(ii) at least 3 blue flags are together.
[4]
At the end of the ceremony, the flags are numbered from 1 to 10. Four out of the
ten flags are to be chosen randomly and presented together to the Guest of
Honour. How many selections are possible if at most one yellow flag is included? [2]
[2520; 1260; 182]
3 2009/CJC/Prelim/2/8

A group of 10 people consists of 3 married couples and 4 single men

(a) A committee of 4 is to be formed from the 10 people.
(i) How many different committees can be formed? [1]
(ii) How many different committees can be formed if the committee
can consist of at most 1 married couple? [2]
(b) The group sits at a round table with 10 seats each of a different colour.
(i) If each man sits next to his wife, how many ways can they be seated? [3]
If one man is absent and the rest are allowed to sit without any
restrictions, how many ways can they be seated? [2]
[(a) 210; 207 (b) 57600, 3628800]
4 2009/MI/Prelim/2/7

(a) An ordinary deck of 52 cards consists of four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts [2]
and spades) with 13 denominations each (Ace, 2-10, jack, queen, king).
Find the number of ways of selecting 5 cards of which all are of the same
suit.
[2]
(b) In how many ways can we select two books from among five distinct
 Economics books, three distinct Physics books and two distinct Art books
such that these two books are from different subjects?
[2]
(c) In how many ways can eight distinct books be divided among three
students if Andy gets four books, Belle and Calvin each get two books?
[5148; 31; 420]
5 2009/JJC/Prelim/2/7

(a) In an organisation of 10 workers, how many ways can a leader and 3

other committee members be appointed?

After appointing the leader and the 3 committee members, in how many
ways can these 10 people sit at a round table, if the leader must have any
two of his committee members seated beside him, when

(i) the seats are not numbered [2]

(ii) the seats are numbered? [1]

(b) Five cards each have a single digit written on them. The digits are 1, 2, 2,
4, 6 respectively. How many even numbers greater than 4000 can be [3]
formed by placing some or all of these cards side by side?
[840; 30240; 302400; 66]