Statistics and Probability
Subject
Mathematics
School
Community College of Philadelphia
Question Description
Five-card stud is a poker game, in which a player is dealt 5 cards from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards. How many distinct poker hands could be dealt?
How many different ways can you arrange the letters X, Y, and Z without repeating letters? (Hint: In this problem, order is important; i.e., XYZ is considered a different arrangement than YZY.)
In horse racing, a trifecta is a type of bet. To win a trifecta bet, you need to specify the horses that finish in the top three spots in the exact order in which they finish. If eight horses enter the race, how many different ways can they finish in the top three spots?
How many sample points are in the sample space when a coin is flipped 4 times and each time the result (heads or tails) is recorded?
A business man has 4 dress shirts and 7 ties. How many different shirt/tie outfits can he create?
Joleen is on a shopping spree. She buys six tops, three shorts and 4 pairs of sandals. How many different outfits consisting of a top, shorts and sandals can she create from her new purchases?
What is the total number of possible 4-letter arrangements of the letters
m, a, t, h, if each letter is used only once in each arrangement?
There are 12 boys and 14 girls in Mrs. Schultzkie's math class. Find the number of ways Mrs. Schultzkie can select a team of 3 students from the class to work on a group project. The team is to consist of 1 girl and 2 boys.