CAIE S1 2015 June — Question 7

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2015
SessionJune
TopicPermutations & Arrangements
TypePeople arrangements in groups/rows

7 Rachel has 3 types of ornament. She has 6 different wooden animals, 4 different sea-shells and 3 different pottery ducks.
  1. She lets her daughter Cherry choose 5 ornaments to play with. Cherry chooses at least 1 of each type of ornament. How many different selections can Cherry make? Rachel displays 10 of the 13 ornaments in a row on her window-sill. Find the number of different arrangements that are possible if
  2. she has a duck at each end of the row and no ducks anywhere else,
  3. she has a duck at each end of the row and wooden animals and sea-shells are placed alternately in the positions in between.