At 12:41 PM 10/4/01 -0500, Edwina Chappell wrote:
>Permutations
say you have a speech class and, there are 5 students who have to give a
short speech one day ... how many different ORDERS can they go in?
>versus Combinations.
what if on a test, of 30 mc items ... the instructor lets you pick a
Edwina Chappell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu:
>Permutations versus Combinations.
>Easy ways to understand the concepts and distinguish when to use?
Does arrangement matter? If yes, permutation; if no, combination.
I don't know any useful way to make it more complicated. :-)
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Hi
On 4 Oct 2001, Edwina Chappell wrote:
> Permutations versus Combinations. Easy ways to understand
> the concepts and distinguish when to use?
I use to like to teach both as a specific variant of the
partition rule, and then the distinction was whether specific
problems involved so many sets
Permutations versus Combinations. Easy ways to understand the concepts and
distinguish when to use?
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