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    The document discusses the fundamental counting principle and provides examples of using it to calculate the number of possible outcomes for various scenarios involving multiple choices. Examples include calculating possible car configurations, answers to a multiple choice test, social security numbers, alarm codes, license plates, telephone numbers, shopper categories, horse race finishes, sandwich and side order combinations, postal codes, lock codes, and student seating arrangements.

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    The document discusses the fundamental counting principle and provides examples of using it to calculate the number of possible outcomes for various scenarios involving multiple choices. Examples include calculating possible car configurations, answers to a multiple choice test, social security numbers, alarm codes, license plates, telephone numbers, shopper categories, horse race finishes, sandwich and side order combinations, postal codes, lock codes, and student seating arrangements.

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    The Fundamental Counting Principle (FCP) NAME:______________

    The FCP- the ability to determine how many ways certain choices can be made. When two or
    more choices must be made together we use the FCP. If one item can be selected m ways, and for
    each way a second item can be selected in n ways, then the two items can be selected m x n
    different ways. SHOW your work

    1. A car model comes with the following choices: 9 colours, with or without air
    conditioning, with or without sunroof, with or without automatic transmission,
    with or without a spoiler, and with or without antilock brakes . In how many
    ways can the car be ordered?

    2. You are about to take a 8 question multiple choice test. Each of these questions
    have 4 answers (A, B, C, or D). How many ways can you answer the test if you
    leave an answer for each question?

    3. A social security number contains nine digits, such as 000-00-0000. How many
    different social security numbers can be formed using any numerals from 0 to 9?

    4. How many different four digit alarm codes can be formed for a house alarm. The
    first digit must be a 2, 4 or 9 and all the other digits can be any number and
    numbers can be repeated.

    5. How many 5 character license plates can be made if the first 3 characters are
    letters and last 2 characters are numbers. Repetition of characters is allowed but
    the first letter must be a P, W, Q, E, L, or K?

    6. Telephone numbers is the United States begin with 3 digit area codes followed by
    7 digit local telephone numbers. Area codes and local telephone numbers
    cannon begin with 0 or 1. How many telephone numbers are possible?

    7. Shoppers in a large shopping mall are categorized as: male or female,


    over 30 or 30 and under, and cash or credit card shoppers. In how many ways
    can the shoppers be categorized?
    8. There are 8 horses in race, how many ways can they finish first, second and third?

    9. A menu has 6 different sandwiches, with 3 choices of potato, 3 types of salad, and
    5 different beverages. How many different lunches can be ordered consisting of a
    sandwich, potato, salad and beverage?

    10. Assume a postal coded consists of 6 characters. Each character can be any letter
    from A to Z or any numeral from 0 to 9. How many postal codes are possible in
    this situation?

    11. A lock uses the letters A through H on the first dial and the digits 0 through 9 on
    the second and third dials.
    a) How many possible codes are there for this lock?

    b) How many possible codes are there if the same number is not used twice?

    12. In how many ways can a teacher seat 5 girls and 3 boys in a row of 8 seats if a boy
    must be seated in the first seat and a girl in the last seat?

    13. Draw a tree diagram of all the possible outcomes there are when a coin is flipped in
    the air and dice is rolled at the same time.

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