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A girl has 20 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

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Important Questions on Permutations and Combinations

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A girl has 20 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

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A girl has 20 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

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A girl has 20 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 20 squares.

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Two students are asked to find how many ways there are to plant two trees and three bushes in a row. The first student gives 5!=120, and the second gives 5!2!×3!=10. Decide who you agree with and explain the error made by the other student.
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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?

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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.

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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.

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There are 420 possible arrangements of all the letters in a particular seven-letter word. Give a description of the letters in this word.