+11912 1. Define a "good word" as a sequence of letters that consists only of the letters A, B, and C and in which A never immediately followed by B , B is never immediately followed by C , and C is never immediately followed byA. If the nuber of n-letter good words are 384, find the value of n.
(i have tried to try this question but my ind goes blank whenever i read it, i have no idea what "good word " is or how in the world can i even use PnC to solve this problem. if it wasnt in the chapter, i'd never know it was of this topic. lol 
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2. There are 21 balls which are either white or black and the ball of the same colour are alike. Find the no. of white balls so that the number of arrangements of these balls in a row be maximum.
(i dont know what "maximum" means here . and i also dont know how to solve this question. )
3. How any 4 digit numbers are there which are divible by 2.
(my answer here is coming as 9*8*7*5 but the book's answer is 9*10*10*5... i dont know why im telling you this becoz then you can twist your answer to match the books, lol.)
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and just a reminder to all those helpful matheaticians who take out their time to help us and make our concepts clearer. we really appreciate it. Thank you so much.
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PnC seems to be really twisting my brain. its literally lowering my self esteem so badly, you have no idea.lol
+129852 Number 3
Rosala....here's the explanation for the book's answer :
Note...if fthe leading digit cannot be 0, we have 9 choices for this
And for the next two digits, we have 10 ways to choose each
But note....that the last digit must be even if the number is divisible by 2....so....we only have 5 choices for this 2,4,6, 8 or 0
So..... we have 9 * 10 * 10 * 5 = 4500
Hope that helps....!!!!
+129852 1) Rosala....I believe the value of n is 8
Reasoning
The first letter can be chosen 3 ways...either A, B or C
But....the second letter can only be chosen 2 ways.....for instance....if A is the first letter, the second can only be chosen 2 ways, either another A or C
And notice that each successive letter can only be chosen in 2 ways......for instance...if the second letter is B, the third letter can only be another B or A
So.....we need to solve this to find the number of additional letters, m, after the first one
3 * 2^m = 384 divide by 3
2^m = 128
And m = 7 makes this true
So....the the number of total letters is
First one + m additional = 1 + 7 = 8
Another way to see this is
3 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 = 384
+11912 CPhill, in 3rd one, why have you repeated "10" , lets see it like this..
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now we have 9 choices for the 1000th digit. (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)
next, after we have 5 choices for the ones place digit ( 0,2,4,6,8)
so now for the 100th place, we only have left 8 choices to choose from.
i thought that to made a no. divisible by 2 , only the last digit has to be even..? is that not true?
so that way we'll have 7 choices for the 10th position...
if we do it by 9*10*10*5
arent we repeating the digits?
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And CPhill in the 1st one arent you repeating the letters? what does "good word " mean?
this is getting really confusing, can you pls give me a more detailed answer?
Don't you know how to do the 2nd question?
thank you so much for your help!
