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A nickel, a dime, and 2 identical quarters are arranged
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A nickel, a dime, and 2 identical quarters are arranged along a side of a table. If the quarters and the dime have to face heads up, while the nickel can face either heads up or tails up, how many different arrangements of coins are possible? A. 12 B. 24 C. 48 D. 72 E. 96
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T740qc wrote:
can somone explain this please? 4!/2! to get to diff ways the coins can be placed taking into acct the repeat in quarters but i don't get the *2! part. Thanks!
Welcome to Gmat Club.
THEORY. Permutations of \(n\) things of which \(P_1\) are alike of one kind, \(P_2\) are alike of second kind, \(P_3\) are alike of third kind ... \(P_r\) are alike of \(r_{th}\) kind such that: \(P_1+P_2+P_3+..+P_r=n\) is:
\(\frac{n!}{P_1!*P_2!*P_3!*...*P_r!}\).
For example number of permutation of the letters of the word "gmatclub" is \(8!\) as there are 8 DISTINCT letters in this word.
Number of permutation of the letters of the word "google" is \(\frac{6!}{2!2!}\), as there are 6 letters out of which "g" and "o" are represented twice.
Number of permutation of 9 balls out of which 4 are red, 3 green and 2 blue, would be \(\frac{9!}{4!3!2!}\).
BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION: A nickel, a dime, and 2 identical quarters are arranged along a side of a table. If the quarters and the dime have to face heads up, while the nickel can face either heads up or tails up, how many different arrangements of coins are possible? A. 12 B. 24 C. 48 D. 72 E. 96
# of arrangements of a nickel, a dime, and 2 quarters, or arrangements of 4 letters NDQQ out of which 2 Q's appear twice will be \(\frac{4!}{2!}\). Next, as nickel can face either heads up or tails up then we should multiple this number by 2, so finally we'll get: \(\frac{4!}{2!}*2=24\).
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can somone explain this please? 4!/2! to get to diff ways the coins can be placed taking into acct the repeat in quarters but i don't get the *2! part. Thanks!
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13 Dec 2012, 09:09
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T740qc wrote:
can somone explain this please? 4!/2! to get to diff ways the coins can be placed taking into acct the repeat in quarters but i don't get the *2! part. Thanks!
Welcome to Gmat Club.
THEORY. Permutations of \(n\) things of which \(P_1\) are alike of one kind, \(P_2\) are alike of second kind, \(P_3\) are alike of third kind ... \(P_r\) are alike of \(r_{th}\) kind such that: \(P_1+P_2+P_3+..+P_r=n\) is:
\(\frac{n!}{P_1!*P_2!*P_3!*...*P_r!}\).
For example number of permutation of the letters of the word "gmatclub" is \(8!\) as there are 8 DISTINCT letters in this word.
Number of permutation of the letters of the word "google" is \(\frac{6!}{2!2!}\), as there are 6 letters out of which "g" and "o" are represented twice.
Number of permutation of 9 balls out of which 4 are red, 3 green and 2 blue, would be \(\frac{9!}{4!3!2!}\).
BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION: A nickel, a dime, and 2 identical quarters are arranged along a side of a table. If the quarters and the dime have to face heads up, while the nickel can face either heads up or tails up, how many different arrangements of coins are possible? A. 12 B. 24 C. 48 D. 72 E. 96
# of arrangements of a nickel, a dime, and 2 quarters, or arrangements of 4 letters NDQQ out of which 2 Q's appear twice will be \(\frac{4!}{2!}\). Next, as nickel can face either heads up or tails up then we should multiple this number by 2, so finally we'll get: \(\frac{4!}{2!}*2=24\).
Answer: B.
Hope it's clear.
I completely understood the concept. But i am little doubtful about one more condition given " If the quarters and dime have to face heads up" Do we assume that they are facing up or we should subtract the possibility of having tails up??
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aditi2013 wrote:
Bunuel wrote:
T740qc wrote:
can somone explain this please? 4!/2! to get to diff ways the coins can be placed taking into acct the repeat in quarters but i don't get the *2! part. Thanks!
Welcome to Gmat Club.
THEORY. Permutations of \(n\) things of which \(P_1\) are alike of one kind, \(P_2\) are alike of second kind, \(P_3\) are alike of third kind ... \(P_r\) are alike of \(r_{th}\) kind such that: \(P_1+P_2+P_3+..+P_r=n\) is:
\(\frac{n!}{P_1!*P_2!*P_3!*...*P_r!}\).
For example number of permutation of the letters of the word "gmatclub" is \(8!\) as there are 8 DISTINCT letters in this word.
Number of permutation of the letters of the word "google" is \(\frac{6!}{2!2!}\), as there are 6 letters out of which "g" and "o" are represented twice.
Number of permutation of 9 balls out of which 4 are red, 3 green and 2 blue, would be \(\frac{9!}{4!3!2!}\).
BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION: A nickel, a dime, and 2 identical quarters are arranged along a side of a table. If the quarters and the dime have to face heads up, while the nickel can face either heads up or tails up, how many different arrangements of coins are possible? A. 12 B. 24 C. 48 D. 72 E. 96
# of arrangements of a nickel, a dime, and 2 quarters, or arrangements of 4 letters NDQQ out of which 2 Q's appear twice will be \(\frac{4!}{2!}\). Next, as nickel can face either heads up or tails up then we should multiple this number by 2, so finally we'll get: \(\frac{4!}{2!}*2=24\).
Answer: B.
Hope it's clear.
I completely understood the concept. But i am little doubtful about one more condition given " If the quarters and dime have to face heads up" Do we assume that they are facing up or we should subtract the possibility of having tails up??
The nickel can face either heads up or tails up, thus we multiply the total # of ways in which we can arrange NDQQ by 2. The quarters and the dime have to face heads up, so only 1 choice for both of them, thus we don't need to multiply further.
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A nickel, a dime, and 2 identical quarters are arranged along a side of a table. If the quarters and the dime have to face heads up, while the nickel can face either heads up or tails up, how many different arrangements of coins are possible? A. 12 B. 24 C. 48 D. 72 E. 96
How many ways to arrange {N}{D}{Q}{Q} ? \(=\frac{4!}{2!} = 12\)
\(=12*1*1*1*(2)\) Since there are two ways to arrange the nickel...
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07 May 2016, 01:42
Hi, shouldn't the answer be 48. For the Nickel and the Dime, we can select 2 places out of 4 in 4C2 ways followed by the arrangement in 2! ways. The two quarters then can have 4 combinations (HH, HT, TH, TT).
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07 May 2016, 04:31
[quote="marcodonzelli"]A nickel, a dime, and 2 identical quarters are arranged along a side of a table. If the quarters and the dime have to face heads up, while the nickel can face either heads up or tails up, how many different arrangements of coins are possible? A. 12 B. 24 C. 48 D. 72 E. 96
No of ways when nickel face head=4!/2!=12 no of ways when nickel face tail= 4!/2!=12 total no of ways =24
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Hi, shouldn't the answer be 48. For the Nickel and the Dime, we can select 2 places out of 4 in 4C2 ways followed by the arrangement in 2! ways. The two quarters then can have 4 combinations (HH, HT, TH, TT).
Please ignore any typos as I am new to this forum.
Hi, you have adopted the correct approach but misread the Q.. It says that quarters and dime have to be faced heads up.. ONLY Nickel can be either head or tail.. so Nickel can be placed in two ways.. ans 4C2*2!*2= 24..
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10 Dec 2019, 08:33
easiest way to think about this is from the nickles position nickles in position 1 as heads or tails and only the dime changes or N(2)QQD, N(2)QDQ, N(2)DQQ = 6 nickles in position 2 as heads or tails and only the dime changes or QN(2)QD, NQ(2)DQ, ND(2)QQ = 6 nickles in position 3 as heads or tails and only the dime changes or QQN(2)D, QDN(2)Q, DQN(2)Q = 6 nickles in position 4 as heads or tails and only the dime changes or QQDN(2), QDQN(2), DQQN(2) = 6 final count 24 seems slow but once you see the pattern it's easy
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