math game grade 5

Question: Given five different green dyes, four different blue dyes and three different red dyes, how many combinations of dyes can be chosen taking atleast one green and one blue dye? Answer: The least number of dyes that a combination can have is 2. (one blue and one green)...

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Question: Ten different letters of an alphabet are given. Words with five letters are formed from these given letters. Find the number of words which have atleast one letter repeated. Answer: Total number of 5 letter words from given 10 letters = 10 5 (if ..

Question: The sides AB, BC, CA of a triangle ABC have 3, 4 and 5 interior points respectively on them. Find the number of triangles that can be drawn using these points as vertices. Answer: The points 3+4+5=12 points lie in a plane. To construct a triangle, we requir..

i) A sequence of multiples of 5 5, 10, 15, 20, ii) A sequence of reciprocals of positive integers The above two sequences are clearly the infinite sequence..

2, 5, 8, 11, 14 , 32 37, 33 , 1 A sequence is called infinite if the number of terms is infinite. An infinite sequence has no last term. In this sequence, every term is followed by a new ter..

Question: Answer: = 5 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 1 = 31 = RH..

i) Here, the total number = 6 + 6 = 12. 12 persons can be arranged in circular permutation as (12 - 1)! = 11! ways. ii) When 6 gentlemen are arranged around a table, there are 6 positions, each being between two gentlemen for 6 ladies, when no two ladies sit side by side. Now, the number of ways i..

Question: There are three different rings to be worn in 5 fingers with at most one in each finger. In how many ways can this be done? Answer: For the first ring, there are 4 options as one finger cannot have more than one ring. The remaining two fingers will have 3 and 2 optio..

Question: A candidate is required to answer 6 out of 10 questions, which are divided into two groups, each containing 5 questions, and he is not permitted to attempt more than 4 from each group. In how many ways can he make his choice? Answer: ..