Lesson Plans SET B for Grades 9-10-PDF Lesson 6 Level 9-10 set B Combinatorics Class

PDF Lesson 6 Level 9-10 set B Combinatorics Class

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The provided text is a set of combinatorics problems and solutions from a Math Kangaroo Level 9-10 problem set. The problems cover various combinatorics concepts, including permutation, combination, probability, and counting techniques, explaining how to solve these through different methodologies.<br /><br />1. **Clock Hands Speed**: Addresses the relative speeds of clock hands, typically solved by understanding that the minute hand moves 12 times faster than the hour hand, given the structural nature and movement intervals of a 12-hour clock.<br /><br />2. **Checkerboard Squares**: Involves selecting squares so they're not in the same row or column, leading to combinatorial counting to ascertain there are 768 possible ways to choose these squares.<br /><br />3. **Sum of Digits**: For numbers where digits are 1 or 3 summing to 10, the solution calculates 28 possible natural numbers using combinational permutations of these digits.<br /><br />4. **Ten-Digit Numbers**: Focuses on numbers using digits 1, 2, 3 with differences of exactly 1 between consecutive digits, calculated to yield 64 such numbers through analysis and permutation arrangement.<br /><br />5. **Rings Problem**: Involving ordering rings, utilizing factorial division to account for restrictions in their removal sequence, leading to 20 distinct ways.<br /><br />6. **Triangle Paths**: Counting paths through small triangles to solve recursive problems, it finds 90 possible paths from top to bottom of the triangle.<br /><br />7. **Barcode Construction**: Consider sequences of alternating black and white stripes resulting in 116 possibilities through recursive counting and constraints on sequence formation.<br /><br />8. **Gift Exchange**: Calculating distinct ways four friends can exchange gifts using a circular permutation pattern, culmulating in 9 arrangements.<br /><br />9. **Binary Numbers Usage**: Counts the number of times '1' appears among binary numbers up to five digits, established at a total of 80 times.<br /><br />The document stresses understanding formulas, pivoting approaches if stuck, and using multiple methods to solve combinatorics problems, pointing out that simplification and alternative counting strategies can be crucial for complex problems.

Keywords

combinatorics

permutation

combination

probability

counting techniques

Math Kangaroo

recursive problems

circular permutation

binary numbers

combinatorial counting