An English examination consists of 8 questions in Part A and 3 questions in Part B. Candidates must choose 6 questions. The order in which questions are chosen does not matter. Find the number of ways in which the 6 questions can be chosen in each of the following cases.
A group of 9 people consists of 2 boys, 3 girls and 4 adults. In how many ways can a team of 4 be chosen if
Mary saves her digital images on her computer in three separate folders named ‘Family’, ‘Holiday’ and ‘Friends’. Her family folder contains 3 images, her holiday folder contains 4 images and her friends folder contains 8 images. All the images are different.
(ii) Find the number of different ways in which Mary can choose 6 of these images if there are 2 from each folder.
(iii) Find the number of different ways in which Mary can choose 6 of these images if there are at least 3 images from the friends folder and at least 1 image from each of the other two folders.
Geoff wishes to plant 25 flowers in a flower-bed. He can choose from 15 different geraniums, 10 different roses and 8 different lilies. He wants to have at least 11 geraniums and also to have the same number of roses and lilies. Find the number of different selections of flowers he can make.
Find the number of different selections of 4 letters from the 9 letters of the word HAPPINESS which contain no Ps and either one or two Ss.