Example 3.4.3  Combinations


PRACTICE EXERCISES

  1. How many ways can a student choose eight questions from a twelve-question exam if at least three questions must be chosen from the first five and three questions from the last seven?


  2. Given a 9 bit binary string, how many different encodings of that string are there which contain exactly four 1's?  (E.g., 111100000 and 001010101 are each encodings with exactly four 1's.)