Question:

A group consists of $4$ girls and $7$ boys. In how many ways can a team of $5$ members be selected if the team has (i) no girls (ii) atleast one boy and one girl (iii) atleast three girls?

Updated On: Jul 5, 2022
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Solution and Explanation

Number of girls $= 4$, Number of boys $= 7$ We have to select a team of $5$ members if the team (i) having no girl $\therefore$ Required no. of ways = $^{7}C_{5} $ $= \frac{7\times 6 }{2} $ $= 21$ (ii) having atleast one boy and one girl $\therefore$ Required no. of ways $ = (^{7}C_{1} \times\, ^{4}C_{4}) +\, (^{7}C_{2} \times\,^ {4}C_{2}) +\, (^{7}C_{3} \times\, ^{4}C_{2}) +\, (^{7}C_{4} \times\, ^{4}C_{1})$ $ = 7 + 84 + 210+ 140$ $ = 441 $ (iii) having atleast three girls $\therefore$ Required no. of ways $= (^{4}C_{3} \times\, ^{7}C_{2}) + \,(^{4}C_{4} \times \,^{7}C_{1}) $ $= 91$
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Concepts Used:

Permutations and Combinations

Permutation:

Permutation is the method or the act of arranging members of a set into an order or a sequence. 

  • In the process of rearranging the numbers, subsets of sets are created to determine all possible arrangement sequences of a single data point. 
  • A permutation is used in many events of daily life. It is used for a list of data where the data order matters.

Combination:

Combination is the method of forming subsets by selecting data from a larger set in a way that the selection order does not matter.

  • Combination refers to the combination of about n things taken k at a time without any repetition.
  • The combination is used for a group of data where the order of data does not matter.