Question

phyllis teaches marketing at a local college. she wants to select one freshman and one sophomore to attend a conference. if she teaches 12 freshman and 14 sophomores, how many combinations of students could be selected?

Answer 1

By using the concept of Permutation and Combination, Counting Principle  Phyllis can make 168 ways to select students.

Permutation and Combination are about making arrangements and making selections on the basis of certain formulas

The re-arranging of any given sorted/ordered set is called a permutation. The “permutation” word actually tells us that change the linear order of the ordered set.

Selecting items from a large collection without taking any care about their order is called combinations.

We need to select one freshman out of 12 freshmen. So selecting r things from n things we can do selection in nr ways, so we can do a selection of freshmen in 12c1 ways

Similarly, we need to select one sophomore out of 14 sophomores, so we can do a selection of sophomores in 14c1 ways

We know that ncr is equivalent to $\frac{n!}{r!(n-r)!}$

So, using this concept total number of ways to select a student

= ((12c1)×(14c1))

=12×14

=168 ways

Hence Phyllis can select students in 168 ways

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