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Hints on here at a starting strategy?
You have to kill three of four dragons A, B, C and D dragons in a row before you get to be with your true love (TL). The chances that you kill them are respectively 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 and 0.9. In what order should you fight them so as to maximize your chances of being with TL?
A combination problem is a mathematical problem that involves determining the number of ways a certain number of objects can be selected or arranged from a larger set without taking order into consideration.
A combination problem is different from a permutation problem in that a combination does not consider the order of the elements, while a permutation does. In other words, in a combination, the selection of elements is considered as a whole, while in a permutation, the order of the elements matters.
The formula for solving a combination problem is nCr = n! / r!(n-r)!, where n represents the total number of objects and r represents the number of objects being selected.
Yes, a combination problem can have repeating elements. In this case, the formula for solving the problem would be nHr = (n+r-1)! / r!(n-1)!, where n represents the total number of elements and r represents the number of elements being selected.
Combination problems have many applications in fields such as genetics, statistics, and computer science. For example, in genetics, combination problems can be used to determine the possible combinations of genes in a population. In statistics, combination problems can be used to calculate probabilities and in computer science, they can be used for data compression and encryption.