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Permutations with Repetition example question

How many ways are there to assign three jobs to five employees if each employee can be given more than one job?

 

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Combinations with Repetition example problem

How many ways are there to select three unordered elements from a set with five elements when repetition is allowed?

 

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Combinations with Repetition example

A book publisher has 3,000 copies of a discrete mathematics book. How many ways are there to store these books in their three warehouses if the copies of the book are indistinguishable?

 

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Combinations with Repetition HARD example question

How many positive integers less than 1,000,000 have the sum of their digits equal to 19?

 

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Combinations with Repetition HARD example problem

How many solutions are there to the equation x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 = 21, where xi , i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, is a nonnegative integer such that
a) x1 ≥ 1 ?
b) xi ≥ 2 for i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ?
c) 0 ≤ x1 ≤ 10 ?
d) 0 ≤ x1 ≤ 3, 1 ≤ x2 < 4, and x3 ≥ 15 ?

 

Solution to this Discrete Math practice problem is given in the video below!



 

 

Combinations with Repetition HARD example

There are 10 questions on a discrete mathematics final exam. How many ways are there to assign scores to the problems if the sum of the scores is 100 and each questions is worth at least 5 points?

 

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Distinguishable Objects & Distinguishable Boxes example question

How many ways are there to distribute 12 distinguishable objects into six distinguishable boxes so that two objects are placed in each box?

 

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