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4. Counting

Example 1 suppose that either a member of the faculty or a student in the department is chosen as a representative to university committee. How many different choices for this representative if there are 37 members of the faculty and 83 students?. 4. Counting.

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4. Counting

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  1. Example 1 suppose that either a member of the faculty or a student in the department is chosen as a representative to university committee. How many different choices for this representative if there are 37 members of the faculty and 83 students? 4. Counting • Combinatorics, the study of arrangements of objects, is an important part of discrete mathematics. 4.1 The Basic of Counting Basic Counting Principles Solution There are 37+83=120 possible ways to pick this representative.

  2. Example 2 A student can choose a computer science project from one of three list. The three lists contain 23,15 and 19 possible project, respectively. How many possible projects are there to choose from? Solution There are 23+15+19=57 possible projects to choose from.

  3. Example 2 The chairs are to be labeled with a letter and a positive integer not exceeding 100. What is the largest number of chairs that can be labeled differently? Example 3How many different bit strings are there of length seven? Solution 26×100= 2600 chairs can be labeled differently. Solution

  4. Example 4How many different license plates are available if each plate contains a sequence of three letters followed by three digits? Solution

  5. Unordered collection Ordered collection Example 1 Let S={1,2,3}. The arrangement 3,1,2 is a permutation of S. The arrangement 3,2 is a 2-permutation of S. 4.3 Permutations and Combinations • Select 5 players from 10 members----How many possible choices? • Prepare an ordered list of 4 plays to play the four singles matches • ------How many possible choices? Permutations • A permutation of a set of distinct objects is an ordered arrangement of these objects. • An r-permutation is an ordered arrangement of r elements of a set.

  6. Example 2How many different ways are there to select 4 different players from 10 players on a team to play four tennis matches, where the matches are ordered? Theorem 1 The number of r-permutation of a set with n distinct elements is P(n,r)=n(n-1)(n-2)…(n-r+1)=n!/(n-r)! Proof The first element can be selected from n elements. The second element can be selected from the remaining n-1 elements. The third element can be selected from the remaining n-2 elements. ..…. The rth element can be selected from the remaining n-(r-1) elements. By using the product rule, P(n,r)=n(n-1)(n-2)…(n-r+1).

  7. Example 3Suppose there are eight runners in a race. The winner receives a gold metal, the second-place finisher receives a silver metal, and the third-place finisher receives a bronze medal. How many different ways are there to award these medals, if all possible outcomes of the race can occur? Example 4Suppose that a saleswoman has to visit eight different cities.She must begin her trip in a specified city, but she can visit the other seven cities in any order she wishes. How many possible orders can the saleswoman use when visiting these cities?

  8. Example 5 Let S={1,2,3,4}. Then {1,2,3} is a 3-combination from S. Example 6 We see that C(4,2)=6, since 2-combination of {a,b,c,d} are the six subsets {a,b},{a,c},{a,d},{b,a},{b,c},{b,d}. Combinations • An r-combination of elements of a set is an unordered selection of r elements from the set. The number of r-combinations of a set with n distinct elements is denoted by C(n,r).

  9. Example 7 How many ways are there to select 5 players from a 10-member tennis team to make a trip to a match at another school? Example 8 How many ways are there to select a committee to develop a discrete mathematics course at a school if the committee is to consist of 3 faculty members from the mathematics department and 4 from the computer science department, if there are 9 faculty members in the mathematics department and 11 of the computer science department?

  10. Example 1 An urn contains 4 blue balls and 5 red balls. What is the probability that a ball chosen from the urn is blue? 4.4 Discrete Probability Finite Probability • Experiment: a procedure that yields one of outcomes. • Sample space of the experiment S: the set of possible outcomes. • Event E: a subset of the sample space. Definition 1. The probability of an event E, which is a subset of a finite sample space S of equally likely outcomes, is p(E)=|E|/|S|. • Solution • Experiment: Chose a ball from the urn. • Sample space S = {b,b,b,b,r,r,r,r,r}. |S| = 9. • Event E = {b,b,b,b}. |E| = 4 There are 9 possible outcomes, and 4 of them produce a blue ball. Hence, the probability that a blue ball is chosen is P(E) = |E|/|S|= 4/9.

  11. Example 2 What is the probability that when two dice are rolled, the sum of the numbers on the two dice is 7? • Solution • Experiment: Roll two dice. • Sample space S = {(x,y) | 1 ≤ x,y ≤ 6}. |S| = 6×6=36. • Event E = { (x,y) | x + y = 7}. |E| = 6. There are 36 possible outcomes. Among them there 36 successful outcomes: (1,6),(2,5),(3,4),(4,3),(5,2),(6,1）. Hence, the probability is P(E) = |E|/|S| = 6/36=1/6．

  12. Example 3 In a lottery, players win a large prize when they pick four digits that match, in the correct order, four digits selected by a random mechanical process. A smaller prize is won if only three digits are matched. What is the probability that a player wins the large prize? What is the probability that a play wins the small prize? • Solution • Suppose that the 4 digits for the large prize are (u,v,x,y). • Experiment: Select 4 digits. • Sample space S = {(a,b,c,d) | 0 ≤ a,b,c,d≤ 9}. |S| = 10×10×10×10 • Event 1 (large prize) E1 = { (u,v,x,y)}. |E| = 1. • Event 2 (smaller prize) E2 = { (a,b,c,d) | a ≠ u or b ≠ v or c ≠ x or d ≠ y} • |E2| = 9 + 9 +9 + 9 = 36 (1) There are 10000 to choose four digits. Hence, the probability that a player wins the large prize is P(E1) = |E1|/|S| = 1/10000. (2) To win the small prize, exactly one digit must be wrong to get three digits correct. There are 36 ways to choose four digits like this. Hence, the probability that a player wins the small prize is P(E2) = |E2|/|S| = 36/10000=0.0036.

  13. Example 4 There are lotteries that award enormous prizes to people who correctly choose a set of six numbers out of the first n positive integers, where n between 30 and 50. What is the probability that a person picks the correct six numbers out of 40? • Solution • Suppose that the 6 numbers from 1 to 40 for the prize are {u,v,w,x,y,z}. • Experiment: Select 6 numbers from 1 to 40. • Sample space S = {{a,b,c,d,e,f} | 0 ≤ a,b,c,d,e,f ≤ 40}. |S| = C(40,6) • Event 1 (large prize) E = { {u,v,w,x,y,z} }. |E| = 1. The total number of ways to choose 6 numbers out of 40 is P(E) = |E|/|S| = C(40,6)=40!/(34!6!)=3838380. Hence, the probability is 1/3838380.

  14. Example 5 Find the probability that a hand of five cards in poker contains three cards of one kind (same kind of character: 2, 3, …, K, A). The probability is P(E) = |E|/|S| = • Solution • Experiment: Pick 5 cards from 52 cards. • Sample space S = {{a,b,c,d,e} | a,b,c,d,e are picked from 52 cards}. • |S| = C(52,5) • Event E = { {a,b,c,d,e} | three of them are same kind}. • |E| = C(13,1)C(4,3)C(49,2).

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