Combinatorics - math word problems

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  • The box
    cukriky The box contains five chocolate, three fruit, and two menthol candies. We choose sweets at random from the box. What is the probability that we will take out one chocolate, one fruit, and one menthol candy without a return?
  • Tournament
    futball_ball How many matches will be played in a football tournament in which there are two groups of 5 teams if one match is played in groups with each other and the group winners play a match for the overall winner of the tournament?
  • Research in school
    numbers_1 For particular research in high school, four pupils are to be selected from a class with 30 pupils. Calculate the number of all possible results of the select and further calculate the number of all possible results, if it depends on the order in which th
  • Gold, silver, bronze
    olympics How many ways can we divide gold, silver, bronze medails if there are 6 people competing?
  • Assembly time
    mean_normal The assembly time for the toy follows a normal distribution with a mean of 75 minutes and a standard deviation of 9 minutes. The company closes at 5 pm every day. If one starts assembling at 4 pm what is the probability that he will finish before the comp
  • Probability
    fractions_1 How probable is a randomly selected three-digit number divisible by five or seven?
  • Pairs of socks
    probability Ferdinand has twelve pairs of socks, one sock is leaky. What is the probability of putting on a leaky sock?
  • You have
    sane You have 4 reindeer and you want to have 3 fly your sleigh. You always have your reindeer fly in a single-file line. How many different ways can you arrange your reindeer?
  • Twelve flowers
    flowers A florist has roses, tulips, daffodils, and carnations to use in flower arrangements. If she were to make an arrangement using 12 flowers, how many different combinations of these 4 types of flowers would be possible?
  • Chess competition
    chess 4 chess players took part in the competition. How many tournaments have taken place if every chess player has fought everyone once?
  • Cube construction
    222cube A 2×2×2 cube is to be constructed using 4 white and 4 black unit cube. How many different cubes can be constructed in this way? ( Two cubes are not different if one can be obtained by rotating the other. )
  • Drawing from a hat
    klobouk When drawing numbers from a hat from 1 to 35, we select random given numbers. What is the probability that the drawn numbers will be divisible by 8 and 2?
  • Double probability
    dices2 The probability of success of the planned action is 60%. What is the probability that success will be achieved at least once if this action is repeated twice?
  • Fruits
    banan_1 In the shop sell 4 kinds of fruits. How many ways can we buy three pieces of fruit?
  • Stoaches
    normal_d_2 Stoaches are fictional creatures distantly related to bigfoot and yeti. Stoach weights are normally distributed, with mean 904g and standard deviation 104g. State the probability that the sample mean of a random sample of 36 stoach weights exceeds 943g. (
  • Sick days
    flu In Canada, there are typically 261 working days per year. If there is a 4.9% chance that an employee takes a sick day. .. what is the probability an employee will use 17 OR MORE sick days in a year?
  • Menu
    jedalnicek On the menu are 12 kinds of meal. How many ways can we choose four different meals into the daily menu?
  • A pizza
    pizza_11 A pizza place offers 14 different toppings. How many different three topping pizzas can you order?
  • Probability of failures
    binomial In certain productions, the probability of failures is 0.01. Calculate the probability that there will be more than 1 failure among the 100 selected products if we return the selected products to the file after the check.
  • Three-digit numbers
    numbers_2 We have digits 0,1,4,7 that cannot be repeated. How many three-digit numbers can we write from them? You can help by listing all the numbers.

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