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I was thinking of the question for this few days and i came to this solution.. hope its accepted or please let me know if i'm wrong.. since there is 6 faces therefore there will be 6! ways to colour all the 6 faces.. its also 3D object and a cube has 8 rotation ( i'm using the concept of circular pe...
- by muthu8622
Wed May 18, 2011 11:00 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: six-sided cube and six cans of paint
- Replies: 27
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To my knowledge the dividers method works by taking accounting for all the ways you can arrange X objects into Y bins (assuming the order doesn't matter) we have 5 letters, which we can denote as L L L L L We also have 3 mailboxes. To graphically represent these mailboxes, we create the dividers, w...
- by muthu8622
Fri May 13, 2011 5:52 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: letters can be posted
- Replies: 14
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what if take the arrangement like this.. (1st box, 2nd box, 3rd box) (5,0,0) (4,1,0) (3,2,0) (2,3,0) (1,4,0) (0,5,0) (4,0,1) (3,1,1) (2,2,1) (1,3,1) (0,4,1) (3,0,2) (2,1,2) (1,2,2) (0,3,2) (2,0,3) (1,1,3) (0,2,3) (1,0,4) (0,1,4) (0,0,5) 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21 ways Whats wrong with this answer? i'm confus...
- by muthu8622
Fri May 13, 2011 2:30 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: letters can be posted
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5431
what if take the arrangement like this.. (1st box, 2nd box, 3rd box) (5,0,0) (4,1,0) (3,2,0) (2,3,0) (1,4,0) (0,5,0) (4,0,1) (3,1,1) (2,2,1) (1,3,1) (0,4,1) (3,0,2) (2,1,2) (1,2,2) (0,3,2) (2,0,3) (1,1,3) (0,2,3) (1,0,4) (0,1,4) (0,0,5) 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21 ways Whats wrong with this answer? i'm confuse...
- by muthu8622
Thu May 12, 2011 1:52 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: letters can be posted
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5431