Probability and statistics
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Probability and combinatorics
Permutations and combinations. Using combinatorics to solve questions in probability.
Permutations and combinations
If want to display your Chuck Norris dolls on your desk at school and there is only room for five of them. Unfortunately, you own 50. How many ways can you pick the dolls and arrange them on your desk? What if you don't care what order they are in or how they are posed (okay, of course you care about their awesome poses)?
Probability using combinatorics
This tutorial will apply the permutation and combination tools you learned in the last tutorial to problems of probability. You'll finally learn that there may be better "investments" than poring all your money into the Powerball Lottery.
- Example: Probability through counting outcomes
- Example: All the ways you can flip a coin
- Getting Exactly Two Heads (Combinatorics)
- Probability and Combinations (part 2)
- Probability using Combinations
- Exactly Three Heads in Five Flips
- Example: Different ways to pick officers
- Example: Combinatorics and probability
- Example: Lottery probability
- Mega Millions Jackpot Probability
- Generalizing with Binomial Coefficients (bit advanced)
- Conditional Probability and Combinations
- Birthday Probability Problem
- Probability with permutations and combinations