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# DISTRIBUTING ITEMS/PEOPLE/NUMBERS... (QUESTION COLLECTION)

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DISTRIBUTING ITEMS/PEOPLE/NUMBERS... (QUESTION COLLECTION)

 ! This post is a part of the Special Questions Directory focusing on Quant topics traditionally neglected and not covered by conventional sources but still tested on the GMAT. Many of these are above average difficulty questions

Combinatorics questions which deal with dividing/distributing entities into groups.

THEORY

Unfair Distributions in Combinatorics - Part I
Unfair Distributions in Combinatorics - Part II

FORMULAE

1. The number of ways in which $$mn$$ different items can be divided equally into $$m$$ groups, each containing $$n$$ objects and the order of the groups is important is $$\frac{(mn)!}{(n!)^m}$$

2. The number of ways in which $$mn$$ different items can be divided equally into $$m$$ groups, each containing $$n$$ objects and the order of the groups is NOT important is $$\frac{(mn)!}{(n!)^m*m!}$$.

3. The total number of ways of dividing n identical items among r persons, each one of whom, can receive 0, 1, 2 or more items $$n+r-1Cr-1$$

4. The total number of ways of dividing n identical items among r persons, each one of whom receives at least one item is $$n-1Cr-1$$

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