Question

Counting Problem

Answer 1

\(\large \color{black}{\begin{align}
& \normalsize \text{In how many ways a 12 member team can be divided }\hspace{.33em}\\~\\
& \normalsize \text{into 3 groups such that each group has 4 members.}\hspace{.33em}\\~\\
\end{align}}\)

Answer 2

try this
for the first group you want to choose 4, and there are 12 to choose from

12 choose 4
second group, there are 8 left to choose from, and you want to choose 4 again

8 choose 4

there are 4 left , and you need to choose 4 again

4 choose 4

by multiplication principle
12 choose 4 * 8 choose 4 * 4 choose 4

Answer 3

i tried this it says wrong

Answer 4

or is it right

Answer 5

12 people and 3 groups of 4
no. of ways to select 4 people from 12 for first group = 12C4 = 495
no. of ways to select 4 people from remaining 8 for second group = 8C4 = 70
no. of ways to select 4 people from 4 for third group = 4C4 = 1

total no. of ways to select people for group = 495 * 70 * 1 / 3! = 34650 /6


= 5775
Here we divide by 3! here position or identification of groups does not matter.
All groups have equal identity, arrangement of group does not matter.
For example, if there are 3 groups having names G1, G2, G3 then there is no need to divide by 3!.

Sometimes there may be typing mistake in solution of a problem, so please ignore it. Understand the concept and try the problem yourself.

Answer 6

u can go here - http://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/Permutations/Permutations.faq.question.342414.html :P

Answer 7

I was close :D

Answer 8

hehe :)

Answer 9

actually there are 2 answers given i m not sure which is correct.

\(\large \color{black}{\begin{align}
& \binom{12}{3}\times \binom{9}{4}\hspace{.33em}\\~\\
\end{align}}\)

\(\large \color{black}{\begin{align}
& \dfrac{12!}{4!*4!*4!*3!}\hspace{.33em}\\~\\
\end{align}}\)

Book has errors in the past

Answer 10

thanks to imquerty.

Answer 11

:D ur welcome :P
i'll take out a nice name for u :) :P

Answer 12

but why he divided by 3! lol

Answer 13

we took the product and divided by 3! since we don't care about the order of the groups :)

Answer 14

Lets say we label the players from 1 to 12
Lets look at one particular partition into three teams :
{1,2,3,4} {5,6,7,8} {9,10,11,12}


{1,2,3,4} {5,6,7,8} {9,10,11,12} = {1,2,3,4}{9,10,11,12} {5,6,7,8}
={5,6,7,8} {1,2,3,4} {9,10,11,12} ={5,6,7,8} {9,10,11,12} {1,2,3,4}
= {9,10,11,12}{1,2,3,4} {5,6,7,8} = {9,10,11,12} {5,6,7,8} {1,2,3,4}

These 6 partitions are equivalent (indistinguishable).
It doesn't matter if players {1,2,3,4} are in group 1, or in group 3, since all we care is that the players are subdivided into three groups.

This is true in general for each partition, so we are overcounting per partition by a factor of 3! or 6. To fix this we divide by 3!