In a standard deck of cards there are 4 suits: clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades. Each suit contains 13 cards: 2, 3, . . . , 10, J, Q,K, A. So there are 4 · 13 = 52 cards, in the deck. A poker hand is a 5-card subset of the standard deck of cards.
(a) How many diferent poker hands are possible? [3 marks]
(b) How many poker hands contain two clubs, two diamonds and one spade? [3 marks]
(c) How many poker hands contain at least one spade? [3 marks]
[Question 1 Total: 9 marks]
Question 2
Consider distributing 30 identical balls into 10 distinct boxes numbered 1; . . . ; 10.
(a) In how many ways can this be done? [3 marks]
(b) What is the number of such distributions in which odd numbered boxes are nonempty? [3 marks]
(c) What is the number of such distributions in which the number of balls that each box receives is a multiple of 3? (So we are interested in distributions in which for every i ∈ {1; . . . ; 10}, there exists a nonnegative integer ki such that the number of balls that box i receives is 3ki.) [3 marks]
[Question 2 Total: 9 marks]
Question 3
(a) What is the coefficient of x2y3 when the expression (3x - 2y)5 is expanded? [3 marks]
(b) What is the coefficient of x5y3 when the expression (x + y + 2)10 is expanded? [3 marks]
[Question 3 Total: 6 marks]
Question 4