For each of the following problems, identify whether it is a permutation or combination problem, and then give the answer.
a) if there are 15 people on a baseball team, how many different 9-person batting orders can a manager make?
b) how many different 5-person squads can a basketball coach send out onto the floor with 11 people on the team?

Four airplanes carrying a total of 400 passengersarrive at the detroit airport. the airplanes carry, respectively,50, 80, 110, and 160 passengers.a) one of the 400 passengers is selected uniformly at random.let x denote the number of passengers that were on theairplane carrying the randomly selected passenger. find var(x)for x as given in the problemb) one of the 4 airplane drivers is also selected uniformly atrandom. let y denote the number of passengers on the chosen driver’s airplane. find var(y) for y as given in the problem

The unpaid balance on a mastercard charge was $1,056.23. during the month, payments of $300 and $250 were made and charges of $425 and $274.16 were added. if the finance charge is 1.2% per month on the unpaid balance, find the new balance at the end of the month. $1,205.39 $1,218.06 $918.06 $1,768.06

Talia grouped the terms and factored out the gcf of the groups of the polynomial 15x2 – 3x – 20x + 4. her work is shown below. (15x2 – 3x) + (–20x + 4) 3x(5x – 1) + 4(–5x + 1) talia noticed that she does not have a common factor. what should she do?