Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073383090
ISBN 13: 978-0-07338-309-5

Chapter 6 - Section 6.5 - Generalized Permutations and Combinations - Exercises - Page 433: 41

Answer

$\frac{52!}{(7!)^{5}.17!}$ = 69,731,208,959,821,871,249,835,089,602,560,000

Work Step by Step

We need to distribute 52 cards in six ways such that $n_{1}$ = 7 $n_{2}$ = 7 $n_{3}$ = 7 $n_{4}$ = 7 $n_{5}$ = 7 $n_{6}$ = 17 where $n_{1}$-$n_{5}$ represent the players and $n_{6}$ represent the remaining deck Distributing n distinguishable objects into k distinguishable boxes such that $n_{i}$ objects are in a box i can be done $\frac{n!}{n_{1}!...n_{k}!}$ Here n= 52 k= 6 So we get $\frac{52!}{(7!)^{5}.17!}$ = 69,731,208,959,821,871,249,835,089,602,560,000
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