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Counting Principles Counting Principles Chapter 6.7
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Buying a car You can choose a Ford, Subaru, or Porsche You can choose a small or medium car You can choose red (R), purple (P), white(W) or green (G) How many choices do you have?
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Objectives Use the Fundamental Counting Principle to find the number of ways 2 or more events can occur Find the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged in order Find the number of ways to choose several objects from a group without regard to order Use counting principles to find probabilities
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The Fundamental Counting Principal If you have 2 events: 1 event can occur m ways and another event can occur n ways, then the number of ways that both can occur is m*n Event 1 = 4 types of meats Event 2 = 3 types of bread How many diff types of sandwiches can you make? 4*3 = 12
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3 or more events: 3 events can occur m, n, & p ways, then the number of ways all three can occur is m*n*p 4 meats 3 cheeses 3 breads How many different sandwiches can you make? 4*3*3 = 36 sandwiches
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The Fundamental Counting Principle If 1 event can occur in m ways and a second event can occur in n ways, the number of ways the 2 events can occur in sequence is m*n. This rule can be extended for any number of events occurring in sequence.
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Buying a car You can choose a Ford, Subaru, or Porsche You can choose a small or medium car You can choose red (R), purple (P), white(W) or green (G) How many choices do you have? 3*2*3 = 18 choices
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You can draw a tree diagram to show this Car Selections Ford Small RPG Medium RPG Subaru SmallRPG Medium RPG Porsche Small RPG Medium RPG
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Tree Diagram A tool for helping you organize the number of possible outcomes
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What is the probability of drawing a red ball and a blue ball from a sack with a red, blue, and white ball.
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Security Systems The access code for a car’s security system consists of 2 digits. Each digit can be 0 through 9. How many access codes are possible if each digit can be used only once and not repeated? 10*10 = 100
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Security Systems What is the probability that you guess it on the first try?
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Security Systems The access code for a car’s security system consists of 4 digits. Each digit can be 0 through 9. How many access codes are possible if each digit can be repeated? 10*10*10*10 = 10,000
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License Plates How many license plates can you make if a license plate consists of Six (out of 26) letters each of which can be repeated? Six (out of 26) letters each of which can not be repeated?
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