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14 Jul 2020, 14:48
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A school has vacancy for a librarian, a Physics teacher, and four Computer teachers. There are 3 candidates for the position of Librarian, 2 candidates for the position of Physics teacher, and 7 candidates for the position of computer teachers. If 2 out of 7 computer teachers refuse to be on the same team, how many different ways are there to fill the vacancies are possible?
- 35
- 150
- 210
- 60
- 70
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14 Jul 2020, 16:24
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For the librarian there are 3 options, for the physics teacher there are 2 options. The key part is the number of viable arrangement for 4 computer teachers.
Typically we would find 7C4 = 7C3 = 7 * 6 * 5 / (3!) = 35 combinations, yet there are 2 teachers that do not want to be in the same group. We may count how many groups have those 2 teachers and subtract that number from 35 to find the number of desired groups for computer teachers.
We need to form a group of 4, two spots are filled in with the two teachers mentioned above, and the other 2 spots must be filled in from the rest of the 5 computer teachers. Therefore there are 5C2 groups out of the 7C4 groups we cannot take.
Out of the 7C4 = 35 combinations, we must remove 5C2 = 5 * 4 / 2! = 10 options that represent the case where these two teachers are grouped. Therefore 35 - 10 = 25 groups are available for computer teachers.
Finally 3 * 2 * 25 = 150 would be the answer.
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14 Jul 2020, 18:50
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Ways to select librarian =3C1
Ways to select physics teacher =2C1
Ways to select computer teacher=7C4
But, as the question mentioned 2 out of those 7 candidates for position of computer teacher are refuse to be on the same team
Lets calculate the number of ways if the 2 candidates want always to be on the same team
Let the 7 candidate be
A,B,C,D,E,F,G
And among those let A,B decided to be on same team
Team of 4 two already filled A,B rest 2 spot fill by 5C2 ways
3C1*2C1*(7C4-5C2)=150 ways
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