Combinatorics Help: Splitting Dollar Notes and Functions with Sets M and N

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I need a little help with combinatorics.

2 Students have 6 dollar notes worth 500 dollars, and 4 notes worth 1000 dollars. Notes with the same value are not distinguished.
A-How many ways to split the notes
B-How many ways to split the notes, so that both get an equal amount of notes.
C-How many ways to split the notes, so that both get an equal amount of money.
D- How many ways to split the notes if we distinguish the notes among each other.

And another:

There is given a set M with m elements and set N with n elements and function f:M->N
A- How many diferent bijective functions exist when m=n?
B- How many diferent injective functions exist when m<=n?
C- how many diferent surjective functions exist when m>=n?

thx! :frown:
 
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