WAEC 2022 · Paper 1 · Q18

In how many ways can six persons be paired?

Worked solution (try it first)
  1. Pick any one person: there are 5 people they can be paired with.
  2. Of the 4 people left, pick one: they have 3 possible partners, and the last two form the final pair.
  3. So there are 5×3×1=155 \times 3 \times 1 = 15 ways, option C.
  4. (Counting the possible pairs, 6C2=15^{6}C_2 = 15, gives the same number.)

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