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    Additive Counting Principle

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    The document introduces the Additive Counting Principle, which is used to find the total number of ways one of several mutually exclusive outcomes can occur. It provides an example of using the principle to calculate the number of ways to select either two boys or two girls from a group. The key points are: 1) The Additive Counting Principle sums the number of ways each mutually exclusive task can be completed; 2) In the example, there are 6 ways to select two boys and 10 ways to select two girls, so the total is 6 + 10 = 16 ways; 3) Mutually exclusive events mean only one task can be accomplished, not all tasks simultaneously.

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    The document introduces the Additive Counting Principle, which is used to find the total number of ways one of several mutually exclusive outcomes can occur. It provides an example of using the principle to calculate the number of ways to select either two boys or two girls from a group. The key points are: 1) The Additive Counting Principle sums the number of ways each mutually exclusive task can be completed; 2) In the example, there are 6 ways to select two boys and 10 ways to select two girls, so the total is 6 + 10 = 16 ways; 3) Mutually exclusive events mean only one task can be accomplished, not all tasks simultaneously.

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    The document introduces the Additive Counting Principle, which is used to find the total number of ways one of several mutually exclusive outcomes can occur. It provides an example of using the principle to calculate the number of ways to select either two boys or two girls from a group. The key points are: 1) The Additive Counting Principle sums the number of ways each mutually exclusive task can be completed; 2) In the example, there are 6 ways to select two boys and 10 ways to select two girls, so the total is 6 + 10 = 16 ways; 3) Mutually exclusive events mean only one task can be accomplished, not all tasks simultaneously.

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    The document introduces the Additive Counting Principle, which is used to find the total number of ways one of several mutually exclusive outcomes can occur. It provides an example of using the principle to calculate the number of ways to select either two boys or two girls from a group. The key points are: 1) The Additive Counting Principle sums the number of ways each mutually exclusive task can be completed; 2) In the example, there are 6 ways to select two boys and 10 ways to select two girls, so the total is 6 + 10 = 16 ways; 3) Mutually exclusive events mean only one task can be accomplished, not all tasks simultaneously.

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    Additive Counting Principle

    We learned about the multiplicative counting principle, we are going to use this principle to find the
    number of ways in which multiple outcomes can occur. The difference between the two is that the Additive
    Counting Principle is used only interested in one of the tasks being accomplished not all of them.
    For example, say you want to select two boys or two girls from a group of four boys and five girls. Notice
    that, in order to perform this selection, you need one and only one of a list of sub-tasks to be accomplished,
    that is, you need to select either two boys or two girls, not both.
    Solution:
    Since there is one and only one of a list of the sub-tasks we need to look at the way that the boys can be
    chosen and the way that the girls can be chosen.
    C(4, 2) = 6 ways and C(5, 2) = 10 ways, so the number of ways to select two select two boys or two girls is
    6 + 10 = 16 ways.
    Since the result that is being looked for is choosing two boys or two girls, but not at the same time, this is
    called mutually exclusive events, we will look at this in more depth when we deal with probability.
    Additive Counting Principle states that if the tasks are mutually exclusive and if the number of ways of
    doing the first task is a, the second task, b, the third task, c, and so on, then the total number of ways to
    perform one of those tasks is a + b + c +
    Example 2:
    A deck of playing cards has four aces and 12 face cards. From a deck of cards, how many can you choose
    a) two aces or two face cards, when you pull two cards out?

    b) one ace and one face card, when you pull two cards out?

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