Counting Principles (AQA GCSE Further Maths)

Exam Questions

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How many 5-digit numbers can be made from the digits below, with no repeated digits?

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How many 4-digit numbers can be made from the following digits, where repeated digits are allowed?

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The following letters are used to create a 6-letter password with no repeated letters.

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How many possible passwords can be made?

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For a positive integer to have n digits, the first digit cannot be a zero.

How many 4-digit positive integers are there?

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On a restaurant menu, there are 5 possible starters, 8 possible main courses and 4 possible desserts.

Out of how many different combinations of a starter, followed by a main course, followed by a dessert can a customer choose from?

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How many odd numbers greater than 30 000 can be formed from these digits

2           4            6           7           8

with no repetition of any digit?

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Miriam’s date of birth is     14/09/2006

She makes a 4-digit number code using digits from her date of birth.

The 4-digit number she makes must

  • not start with 0

  • have all different digits.

How many codes can she make?

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A 4-digit pin code for a lock is formed from the digits below, with no repeated digits allowed.

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How many possible pin codes are multiples of 5?

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In the Latin alphabet, there are 26 letters.

How many 3-letter passwords can be made from the Latin alphabet if no repeated letters are allowed and the password begins with either a V or a W?

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How many 4-digit numbers can be made from the digits below, where repeated digits are allowed, and where the second digit is three times the third digit?

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How many even 4-digit numbers greater than 7000 can be formed from the digits below, where no repeated digits are allowed?

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The digits in the number 3,184,572 are used to form a 5-digit number with no repeated digits, where the first digit must be a prime number.

How many of these 5-digit numbers are even?

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The letters from the word INTRICATE are used to make a 5-letter password with no repeated letters.

A rule for the 5-letter password is that no vowel must be next to another vowel, and that no consonant must be next to another consonant.

In the English language a vowel is considered as A, E, I, O, U.

How many possible passwords are there?

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