Exam-Style Problem

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Nov 2013 p61 q6
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A shop has 7 different mountain bicycles, 5 different racing bicycles and 8 different ordinary bicycles on display. A cycling club selects 6 of these 20 bicycles to buy.

The cycling club buys 3 mountain bicycles, 1 racing bicycle and 2 ordinary bicycles and parks them in a cycle rack, which has a row of 10 empty spaces.

(ii) How many different arrangements are there in the cycle rack if the mountain bicycles are all together with no spaces between them, the ordinary bicycles are both together with no spaces between them and the spaces are all together?

(iii) How many different arrangements are there in the cycle rack if the ordinary bicycles are at each end of the bicycles and there are no spaces between any of the bicycles?

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