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AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
This item is taken from Cambridge IGCSE Additional Mathematics (0606) Paper 11 of October/November 2015.
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To deal with this item, let us summarize the details of the problem:
   (a) Syllabus area: Permutation and Combination
 

   (b) Formula/Concept needed: 
            > Permutation or Combination
            > Addition of Probabilities

Before we answer the items, let us encircle the important clues/phrases.
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
It means that:
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
Next is
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
It means that:
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
The first case is that there is only one (1) woman. It means that five (5) men are needed to complete the team of 6. The total number of possible selections are:
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
The first case is that there are two (2) women. It means that four (4) men are needed to complete the team of 6. The total number of possible selections are:
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
The first case is that there are three (3) women. It means that three (3) men are needed to complete the team of 6. The total number of possible selections are:
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
Adding the number of possible selections:
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
Hence, there are 203 teams that could be formed with 6 members and at least one woman.

Another method is to consider all possible number of teams with 6 members that can be formed out of the 10. Here are the possible teams that could be formed without restrictions.
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
Let us separate the teams formed into two.
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
Since we are only interested on the number of teams with at least one woman, we could deduct the number of teams without any woman from the total. That is
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
The total number of teams formed with 6 members (no restriction) is 
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
The total number of teams formed with 6 members without a woman is
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
or
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
Subtracting them,
AS Level,Statistics,Exam,CIE,Mathematics,Probability,9709,revision,paper 6,past paper items,probability,Permutation,Combination,Selection,order,arrangement,choosing
Hence, the total number of teams formed with 6 members with at least one woman is 203.

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