
A girl has plastic squares. There are five identical red squares, seven identical blue squares and eight identical green squares. By placing them in a row, joined edge-to-edge, find how many different arrangements she can make using:
one square of each colour


Important Questions on Permutations and Combinations
A girl has plastic squares. There are five identical red squares, seven identical blue squares and eight identical green squares. By placing them in a row, joined edge-to-edge, find how many different arrangements she can make using:
the five red squares only

A girl has plastic squares. There are five identical red squares, seven identical blue squares and eight identical green squares. By placing them in a row, joined edge-to-edge, find how many different arrangements she can make using:
all of the blue and green squares

A girl has plastic squares. There are five identical red squares, seven identical blue squares and eight identical green squares. By placing them in a row, joined edge-to-edge, find how many different arrangements she can make using:
all of the squares.


Ten coins are placed in a row on a table, each showing a head or a tail.
How many different arrangements of heads and/or tails are possible?

Ten coins are placed in a row on a table, each showing a head or a tail.
Find how many arrangements have five heads and five tails showing.

Ten coins are placed in a row on a table, each showing a head or a tail.
Of the total arrangements, find how many have more heads than tails showing.

