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HP  10s Instruction Manual

HP 10s Instruction Manual

Probability – rearranging items
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HP 10s Probability – Rearranging Items
Rearranging Items
Practice Solving Problems Involving Factorials,
Permutations, and Combinations

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  • Page 1 HP 10s Probability – Rearranging Items Rearranging Items Practice Solving Problems Involving Factorials, Permutations, and Combinations...
  • Page 2 On the HP 10s all these functions are executed using the b, F and c keys. The HP 10s errors for factorials of integers greater than 69, but this covers most of the problems you will probably find, although numbers larger than 69 can be used for combinations and permutations, if the result does not cause an overflow.
  • Page 3 Note that , so this example can be solved using the factorial function, which is a postfix function on the HP 10s: 6 A b The = key is not required now, because the result of a postfix function is automatically displayed as soon as its key is pressed.
  • Page 4 It is an application of the previous example. In this case, n = 10, x = 4 and p = 0.5: 10 F 4*.5 L 4*.5LW10-4X= Answer: 0.205078125. If you flip a coin 10 times, there is a 20.51% chance of seeing heads 4 times. hp calculators - 4 - HP 10s Probability – Rearranging Items - Version 1.0...