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Pranab Jyoti Chetia from MVM, silpukhuri, Guwahati
Subject :Sam    Class : Sample

Mohit is selling candy bars. He has chocolate bars, nut bars, and mint bars. If a customer buys two bars, and the bars are not of the same type, how many different combinations are possible?

A3
B6
C9
D12


Please explain

Ans 1:

Navya Singh from Hutchings School Talegaon , Pune
Class : Class 6
Even I get 6 as the answer. How is it possible ?

Ans 2:

Jushya from The ardee world school, Gurugram
Class : Class 6
Thank you guys for clearing my doubts

Ans 3:

Aarohi Yadav from Seth Anandram Jaipuria School,Vasundhara, Ghaziabad
Class : Class 8
Yes there are 6 combinations but if you check some of them are same like -CB and MB , MB and CBSo there will be only three combinations

Ans 4:

M Subham Das from Venkateswar English Medium School , Bhubaneswar
Class : Class 6
Class - 6

Ans 5:

swagat sibsshish from davpublic school cuttack, Cuttack
Class : Class 8

Ans 6:

Preetham Sivalingam from Delhi Public School Bangalore East, Bengaluru
Class : Class 7
The six different combinations are CB and NB,CB and MB,NB and CB,NB and MB,MB and CB and finally Mb and CB. But CB and NB and NB and CB are same, same with NB,MB and MB,NB and CB,MB and MB,CB...Thus there are only 3 unique options available...

Ans 7:

Adivishnu SP from Delhi Public School Nadergul, Hyderabad
Class : Class 7
if you check you will get 3 combinations, because the question says that the two bars taken are not of the same type.

Ans 8:

jackie from dps, delhi
Class : Class 6
please explain how answer comes to 3. I can see six different combinations.

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