math games for grade 4

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Question: A committee of 6 is chosen from 10 men and 7 women so as to contain atleast 3 men and 2 women. In how many different ways can this be done, if two particular women refuse to serve on the same committee? Answer: Let the two ladies who refuse to work on the same committee be d..

Question 1 - Question: From a class of 32 students, 4 are to be chosen for a competition. In how many ways can this be done? Answer: We are to select 4 students from 32. This selection can done ..

Matrices - Consider the arrangement In this arrangement, there are two rows and four columns. The number 3 lies in the 2 n d row and 4 t h column. Each number has a fixed position. Matrix A has 2 rows and 3 columns and is thus of order 2 x 3. Matrix B has 3 rows and 2 columns an..

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)...

i) 1 + 4 + 7 + 10 + ... is a series in which first term is 1, second term is 4, third term is 7 and so on. ii) 3 - 9 + 27 - 81 + ... is also a series in which the first term is 3, second term is -9, third term is 27 and so ..

Circular Permutations - When things are arranged in places along a line with first and last place, they form a linear permutation. So far we have dealt only with linear permutations. When things are arranged in places along a closed curve or a circle, in which any place may be regarded as the first..

A matrix having only one row is called a row-matrix. For example: A[1 3 2 -2] is a row matrix of order 1 x 4..

Question: From a class of 32 students, 4 are to be chosen for a competition. In how many ways can this be done? Answer: We are to select 4 students from 32. This selection can done in ..