Find the different paths possible
Consider a rectangular grid of 4×3 with lower left corner named as A and upper right corner named B. Suppose that starting point is A and you can move one step up(U) or one step right(R) only. This is continued until B is reached. How many different paths from A to B possible ?
Now let’s look at some sample paths we can figure out by inspection.
If we start at A and move towards B, we find we can follow the path
RRRUU
(where R = Right one unit, U = Up one unit),
UURRR,
RURUR,
RRUUR,
and so on.
By analyzing our good routes, we see that every good route consists of 5 moves and we have 3 R moves and 2 U moves. We canuse this to generalize a formula to find the number of possible routes.
Since as we’ve shown, order does not matter in our paths (we can have an R in any place of our 5 moves), we can use our combination formula:
C(N,R) = N!/(N-R)! * R!
The number of how many good routes we have can be found by finding how many combinations of 3 R’s we can have in our 5 moves, so we want to calculate:
C(5,3) = 5!/(5-3)! * 2! = 10
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