Three kids, Alberto, Bernadette, and Carlos, decide to share 11 cookies. They wonder how many ways they could split the cookies up provided that none of them receive more than 4 cookies (someone receiving no cookies is for some reason acceptable to these kids).

How many ways do they find?

Respuesta :

Using the arrangements formula, it is found that they find 46200 ways.

What is the arrangements formula?

The number of arrangements of n elements is given by:

[tex]A_n = n![/tex]

If they repeat in [tex]n_1, n_2, \cdots, n_n[/tex] ways, the number of arrangements is given by:

[tex]A_n^{n_1, n_2, \cdots, n_n} = \frac{n!}{n_1!n_2!\cdots n_n}[/tex]

In this problem, 11 elements are arranged with repetitions of 4, 3 and 3, hence:

[tex]T = \frac{11!}{4!3!3!} = 46200[/tex]

They find 46200 ways.

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