In: Statistics and Probability
An instructor gives an exam with fifteen questions. Students are allowed to choose any eleven to answer.
(a)
How many different choices of eleven questions are there?
(b)
Suppose six questions require proof and nine do not.
(i)
How many groups of eleven questions contain four that require proof and seven that do not?
(ii)
How many groups of eleven questions contain at least one that requires proof?
(iii)
How many groups of eleven questions contain at most three that require proof?
(c)
Suppose the exam instructions specify that at most one of questions 1 and 2 may be included among the eleven. How many different choices of eleven questions are there?
(d)
Suppose the exam instructions specify that either both questions 1 and 2 are to be included among the eleven or neither is to be included. How many different choices of eleven questions are there?