A bag contains ten marbles of the same size: 3 are identical green marbles, 2 are identical red ...

A bag contains ten marbles of the same size: 3 are identical green marbles, 2 are identical red marbles, and the other 5 are five distinct colors. If 5 marbles are selected at random, how many distinct combinations C of five marbles could be drawn?

Quiz

Answer/Solution

82

Steps/Work

there will be different cases, which we will take one by one..
1)case 1 when all five colours are different-7c5=21..
2)case 2 when three different colours and 2 of same type=6c3*2=30..
3)case 3 when two different colours and 3 of same type=6c2=15..
4)case 4 when one different colours and 2 of two different colors=5c1*4!/2!2!=15...
5)case 4 when 3 of one type and 2 of other colour=1...
total C-82 ans E