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Counting, arrangements and finite-event results topic check

Practise counting, arrangements and finite-event results in H2 Mathematics, check independently, and return later to review. This check covers selected skills, not the whole course topic.

Learning goals
  • Calculate ordered selections of distinct objects
  • Calculate unordered selections of distinct objects
  • Calculate event probabilities from finite uniform counts
  • Determine conditional probabilities from finite uniform counts
  • Classify finite-count event relationships with supporting count products
  • Calculate linear arrangements of indistinguishable types
  • Calculate circular arrangements of distinct objects
  • GCE A-Level H2 Mathematics 2027
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Revise probability

Combine conditional probability with restricted, repeated and circular arrangements under an explicit sampling convention.

Key ideas

  1. Counting and conditional probability

    Choose counting structures, interpret event regions and conditional trees, and use the observed condition as the reference set.

  2. Restricted line arrangements

    Count lines of distinct objects with together, apart, position and order restrictions, then turn the counts into probabilities.

  3. Repeated and circular arrangements

    Count restricted repeated and circular outcomes, then condition probabilities on the actual selection and seating experiment.

What the syllabus asks

From the GCE A-Level H2 Mathematics 2027 syllabus

  • Include: addition and multiplication principles for counting; permutations nPr and combinations nCr; arrangements of objects in a line or circle, including repetition and restrictions; addition and multiplication of probabilities; mutually exclusive and independent events; tables of outcomes, Venn diagrams, tree diagrams, permutations and combinations to calculate probabilities; conditional probabilities in simple cases; P(A′) = 1 − P(A); P(A ∪ B) = P(A) + P(B) − P(A ∩ B); P(A|B) = P(A ∩ B)/P(B).