There are 5 people that can be seated in a straight line. This can be calculated using permutations, which is 5P1 = 5 ways. Six students can be seated in 8 vacant seats in 8P6 = 20160 ways. The document provides examples of calculating permutations and factorials to determine the number of possible arrangements or combinations of objects.

1. How many ways can
they sit in a row?
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2. In how many ways can 5 people be seated in a straight line?

3. Factorial Notation
When we want to multiply all the natural numbers from a particular
number down to 1, we can use factorial notation to indicate this
operation. The symbol quot;!quot; is used to indicate factorial. This notation can
save us the trouble of writing a long list of numbers.
For example:
6! means 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 720
On the calculator ...
4! = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24 Press: [MATH]
[<] (Prb)
10! = 10 x 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 [4] (!)
= 3 628 800
1! = 1
By definition 0! = 1

4. In how many ways can six students be seated in 8 vacant seats?

5. Permutations (the quot;Pickquot; Formula)
A permutation is an ordered arrangement of objects. On the calculator ...
Press: [MATH]
n is the number of objects available to [<] (Prb)
be arranged r is the number of objects [2] (nPr)
that are being arranged.
Examples:
In how many ways can 5 people In how many ways can six students
be seated in a straight line? be seated in 8 vacant seats?

6. (a) How many “words” of 4 different letters each can be made from the letters
A, E, I, O, R, S, T?
(b) How many of these words begin with a vowel and end with a
consonant?
(c) In how many of these words do vowels and consonants alternate?

7. (a) How many numbers of 5 different digits each can be formed from the digits
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6?
(b) How many of these numbers are even?

8. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6?
(c) How many of these numbers are divisable by 5?

9. HOMEWORK
(a) How many different 4 digit numbers are there in which all the digits are
different?
(b) How many of these numbers are odd?
(c) How many of these numbers are divisable by 5?

10. HOMEWORK
(a) How many 3-digit numbers can be formed if no digit is used more than
twice in the same number?
(b) How many of these numbers are odd?
(c) How many of these numbers are divisable by 5?

11. HOMEWORK
In how many ways can 8 books be arranged on a shelf, if 3 particular books
must be together?

12. HOMEWORK
(a) In how many ways can 4 English books and 3 French books be
arranged in a row on a shelf?
(b) In how many of these ways will the French books be together?