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3 years ago

Consider a deck of cards:

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Ohhhh nasty ! What a delightful little problem !

The first card can be any one of the 52 in the deck. For each one ...
The second card can be any one of the 39 in the other 3 suits. For each one ...
The third card can be any one of the 26 in the other 2 suits. For each one ...
The fourth card can be any one of the 13 in the last suit.

Total possible ways to draw them = (52 x 39 x 26 x 13) = 685,464 ways.

But wait ! That's not the answer yet.

Once you have the 4 cards in your hand, you can arrange them
in (4 x 3 x 2 x 1) = 24 different arrangements. That tells you that
the same hand could have been drawn in 24 different ways. So
the number of different 4-card hands is only ...

(685,464) / (24) = <em>28,561 hands</em>.

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Part A:- $x +11 ft$ Part B:- $(4x+54)ft$ part C:- $x= 2ft$

Part D:- Yes it satisfy his requirement

Step-by-step explanation:

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length and breadth of Trapdoor are $(x+ \frac{1}{2} ) by 2x$ ft.

The Outside length of Rectangle is $(x+16 )$ ft.

Part A:- Total area (in square feet) of the stage can be represented by

$x^{2} + 27x+ 176$ . Write an expression for the width of stage.

So, Area of rectangle = $length \times breadth$

$x^{2} + 27x+ 176 = (x+16) \times breadth$

$Breadth = \frac{x^{2} + 27x+ 176}{x+16}$

$Breadth = x+11$ ft. ................(1)

Part B:- Write an expression for the Perimeter of the stage.

Here, Perimeter of Rectangle = $2(L+B)$

= $2(x+16 + x +11)$

= $(4x + 54) ft$

Part C:- The area of trapdoor is $10 ft^{2}$ . Find the value of x.

So, Area of trapdoor = $10 ft^{2}$

$(x +\frac{1}{2}) \times 2x =10 ft^{2}$

$2x^{2} +x - 10 = 0$

$x = \frac{-1-9}{4}$ , $\frac{-1+9}{4}$

$x = \frac{-5}{2}$ , $2$

Hence value of x is $2 ft$ (Neglecting the negative value because

length cannot be negative).

Part D:- The magician wishes to have the area of the stage be at least 20 times the area of the trapdoor. Does this stage satisfy his requirement? Explain.

So, Length of trapdoor is $(2+\frac{1}{2} ) = \frac{5}{2} ft$