Sum and Product Rule
"How to count choices without listing them: 'or' adds, 'and' multiplies."
Check yourself 1medium Four college students enter an elevator on the ground floor of a 6-story dormitory. If each student can independently get off on only different floors, in how many different ways can the four students exit the elevator ?
Check yourself 2medium A dice is rolled 4 times. Find the number of rolls in which
(i) 6 appears on all 4 dices
(ii) 6 appears on none of the dices
(iii) 6 appears at least onceWork this one through on paper, then compare with the solution.
Check yourself 3medium Check yourself 4medium There are 5 routes between Boston and New York, and 3 routes between New York and Philadelphia.
(i) In how many ways can someone drive from Boston to Philadelphia by way of New York?
(ii) In how many ways can someone drive from Boston to Philadelphia and back to Boston, passing through New York on both trips?
(iii) In how many ways can someone drive the round trip described in (ii) without using the same route more than once?
Work this one through on paper, then compare with the solution.
Check yourself 5medium Four college students enter an elevator on the ground floor of a 6-story dormitory. If each student can independently get off on any of the 6 floors, in how many different ways can the four students exit the elevator ?
Check yourself 6medium In how many ways can a student answer 4 multiple choice questions ? Each question has 3 choices.
Check yourself 7easy A city has 10 gates. In how many ways can a person enter the city through one gate and come out from the other ?
Check yourself 8easy There are 25 girls and 35 boys in a class.
(i) How many ways to pick one of the students as class representative.
(ii) How many ways to pick a boy representative and a girl representativeWork this one through on paper, then compare with the solution.
Check yourself 9easy There are 25 gates to enter a city from north and 45 gates to enter a city from south.
In how many ways can a person enter the city ?Check yourself 10easy Out of 12 Geography, 46 Science, and 66 Calculus books, in how many ways can one book be selected ?
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