OCR S1 2008 January — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2008
SessionJanuary
TopicPermutations & Arrangements
TypeArrangements with adjacency requirements

1
  1. The letters \(\mathrm { A } , \mathrm { B } , \mathrm { C } , \mathrm { D }\) and E are arranged in a straight line.
    (a) How many different arrangements are possible?
    (b) In how many of these arrangements are the letters A and B next to each other?
  2. From the letters \(\mathrm { A } , \mathrm { B } , \mathrm { C } , \mathrm { D }\) and E , two different letters are selected at random. Find the probability that these two letters are A and B .