Marbles & Bags

How many ways can unique 4 marbles be arranged in 6 bags?


This question is flagged because it makes additional assumptions.


The answer is 360.

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1 solution

Dominick Hing
Oct 3, 2014

The solution is just the number of ways you can choose 4 bags multiplied by the order that the marbles could be in...

6 C 4 × 4 ! = 6 ! 2 ! 4 ! × 4 ! = 6 ! 2 ! = 720 2 = 360 { _{ 6 }C_{ 4 }\times 4!=\frac { 6! }{ 2!4! } \times 4!=\frac { 6! }{ 2! } =\frac { 720 }{ 2 } =360 }

where 6 C 4 { _{ 6 }C_{ 4 }} is the number of ways you can choose 4 bags from 6

and 4 ! 4! is the number of ways you could arrange the marbles in those 4 bags

Why is there only 1 marble in each bag?

Calvin Lin Staff - 6 years, 8 months ago

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