An estate valued at $90 000 is divided among three daughters, Karen, Kaylia and Keisha in the ratio 5 : 8 : 2 respectively. Calc
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When they say quotient, they want a fraction, so the answer for that would be
and the decimal form of that would be 0.6. You can get that from dividing 6 by 10 and solving with long division.
and the decimal form of that would be 0.6. You can get that from dividing 6 by 10 and solving with long division.
There are ways of picking 2 of the 10 available positions for a 0. 8 positions remain.
There are ways of picking 3 of the 8 available positions for a 1. 5 positions remain, but we're filling all of them with 2s, and there's
way of doing that.
So we have
The last expression has a more compact form in terms of the so-called multinomial coefficient,