Counting Methods

Practice Questions

GMAT Quantitative Reasoning › Counting Methods

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How many subsets does a set with 12 elements have?

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How many ways can a president, a vice-president, a secretary-treasurer, and three Student Senate representatives be selected from a class of thirty people? You may assume these will be six different people.

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Define set .

How many four-element subsets of include at least three even numbers?

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We want to create a three-character-long password using only the twenty-six letters from the English alphabet. How many different passwords can be created?

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A college cafeteria offers sizes of pizza - small, medium, and large. With a small pizza, up to one topping is included without additional charge; for a medium or large, up to two toppings are included without additional charge. The cafeteria allows a double topping (i.e. double mushrooms) to count as two toppings.

The cafeteria offers three meat toppings - pepperoni, beef, and sausage. If the cafeteria offers other toppings, then how many ways can someone order a pizza -choosing a size and up to the maximum number of toppings- without having to pay extra?

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What is the number of possible 4 letter code words that can be made from the alphabet, when all 4 letters must be different?

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We have four keys and are asked to open four locks with those keys. Each key only opens one lock; however, we don't know which key opens which lock. At most, how many attempts must we make before we can be sure to have all locks opened?

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In how many ways can the letters , , , , and be arranged to form a six-letter combination?

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A pizza parlor is offering a five-topping large pizza for $14.59. The toppings must be different, and they must include two meats and two vegetables; the fifth can be either. The meat toppings are pepperoni, beef, and sausage; the vegetable toppings are mushrooms, olives, onions, and green peppers.

How many possible ways can the toppings be chosen?

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Fred shuffles a deck of 52 cards. He then draws 1 card and keeps it. Then he draws a 2nd card. Then he puts it back into the deck and shuffles again. Fred then draws a 3rd card and keeps it

What's the probability that the 2nd and 3rd cards are the same?

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