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JEE • MATHEMATICS • PERMUTATION AND COMBINATION
Permutation and combination practice · Mixed difficulty
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If a man and his wife enter in a bus, in which five seats are vacant, then the number of different ways in which they can be seated, is
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Correct option: C
20
Option C (20) is correct because the man can choose from 5 seats, and then the wife can choose from the remaining 4 seats, giving 5*4 = 20 possibilities.
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Easy
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The number of ways in which 5 boys and 3 girls can be seated in a row so that each girl is between two boys is
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Correct option: A
2880
Option A (2880) is correct because it considers the arrangement of boys and the placement of girls between them.
63
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is equal to
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Correct option: B
The correct answer is B () because the given sum can be simplified to a telescoping series of factorials.
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The number of different words that can be formed from the letters of the word ‘PENCIL’ so that no two vowels are together, is
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Correct option: D
480
Option D (480) is correct because the consonants can be arranged in 4! ways, and the vowels can be arranged in the remaining spaces in ways.
65
Easy
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There are 10 persons among whom two are brother. The total number of ways in which these persons can be seated around a round table so that exactly one person sit between the brothers, is equal to
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because the two brothers can be arranged in 2! ways, and the remaining 8 people (including the block of brothers) can be arranged around the table in 8! ways.
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Analyzing
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Let be a prime number such that . Let . The number of primes in the list , is
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Correct option: D
None of these
The correct answer is D (None of these) because for each term in the list, is divisible by , making none of them prime.
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Application
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If there are 12 persons in a party, and if each of them shakes hands with each other, then number of handshakes happen in the party is
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Correct option: A
66
Option A (66) is correct because it represents the number of ways to choose 2 people out of 12 for a handshake, calculated using combinations.
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Medium
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Application
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The pages of a book are numbered 1 to . When page numbers of the book were added, one of the page number was mistakenly added twice \& hence resulting is a incorrect sum 1986 . What was the number of page that was added twice :
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Correct option: C
33
Option C (33) is correct because it is the page number that, when added twice, results in the incorrect sum of 1986.
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Easy
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The number of words that can be formed from the letters of the word DAUGHTER so that the vowels always come together, is
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Correct option: A
4320
Option A (4320) is correct because it calculates the arrangements of the word DAUGHTER treating the vowels as a single unit.
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The sum of all the four-digit numbers that can be formed using all the digits is equal to____
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Correct option: A
26664
Option A (26664) is correct because it is the sum of all possible four-digit numbers formed using the digits 2, 1, 2, 3, calculated by considering the place values and the frequency of each digit.
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The number of ways of painting the faces of a cube with six different colours is
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Correct option: A
1
Option A (1) is correct because when painting the faces of a cube with different colors, the orientation doesn't matter, so there's only one unique way.
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Easy
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Analyzing
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The number of ways in which the letters of the word 'SUCCESSFUL' be arranged such that no two S's will come together is
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Correct option: D
The correct answer is D () because it accounts for arranging the non-S letters and then placing the S's in the gaps.
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Determine , if .
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Correct option: A
5
Option A (5) is correct because solving the ratio leads to .
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has four friends he wants to invite one or more of them at dinner. If the invited persons(s) are sitting around a circular table then the arrangement in which (if both are invited) are sitting together is
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Correct option: B
48
Option B () is correct because each of the four prizes can be given to any of the 8 students, independently. This results in possible ways.
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Medium
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The total number of ways of selecting two numbers from the set , so that their sum of divisible by 3, is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it accounts for selecting two numbers from the same remainder group modulo 3 or one number from each of the two different remainder groups.
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Application
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The total number of functions ' ' from the set into the set such that , is
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Correct option: A
35
Option A (35) is correct because it counts the number of non-decreasing functions from a set of size 3 to a set of size 5.
77
Easy
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Let be a factor of 120, then the number of positive integral solutions of is
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Correct option: B
320
Option B (320) is correct because it accurately calculates the number of positive integral solutions by considering the distribution of prime factors of 120 among the three variables, given that 'a' is a factor of 120.
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The sum equal to
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because the sum can be rewritten as a telescoping series, which simplifies to the given expression.
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In a group of boys, two boys are brothers and in this group, 6 more boys are there. In how many ways, they can sit if the brothers are not to sit alongwith each other :
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Correct option: D
None of these
The correct answer is None of these because the calculated number of ways is 30240, which is not among the options.
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A library has a copies of one book, copies of each of two books, copies of each of three books and single copies of d books. The total number of ways in which these book can be distributed, is
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Correct option: B
Option B is correct because it accounts for the repetitions of identical books within each group (two books with b copies each and three books with c copies each) when calculating the total number of arrangements.
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Let . If , where denotes greatest integer , then is equal to
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Correct option: B
5
The correct answer is 5 because for n >= 6, n! is divisible by 7, so the sum modulo 7 stabilizes, and we can calculate the sum of the first few terms modulo 7.
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Total number of ways in which 15 identical blankets can be distributed among 4 persons, so that each of them gets atleast two blankets, is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it represents the number of ways to distribute the blankets after giving each person the minimum required number of blankets.
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Easy
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If be the number of 3 digit natural numbers, having sum of their digits at least 10 , then find .
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Correct option: A
7
Option A (7) is correct because the number of 3-digit numbers with a digit sum of at least 10 is 735, and (735-35)/100 = 7.
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If , then the value of is equal to
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Correct option: A
4
The value of n is 4 (Option A). This is found by setting up the ratio of permutations, simplifying the equation, and solving the resulting quadratic equation for n.
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If , then value of is:
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Correct option: B
3
Option B (3) is correct because substituting r=3 into the ratio satisfies the equation after simplifying the combinations.
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There are 10 points in a plane, of which no 3 points are collinear and 4 points are concyclic. The number of different circles that can be drawn through atleast 3 of these points, is
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Correct option: C
117
Option C (117) is correct because it calculates the total number of circles possible minus the circles formed by the 4 concyclic points, plus 1 (for the circle formed by the 4 concyclic points).
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Easy
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The lock of a safe consists of five discs each of which features the digits 0, 1, 2, … ,9.The safe can be opened by dialing a special combination of the digits. The number of days sufficient enough to open the safe. If the work day lasts 13 h and 5 s are needed to dial one combination of digits is
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Correct option: C
11
Option C (11) is correct because calculating the total time to try all combinations and dividing by the workday length results in approximately 11 days.
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Medium
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In a class tournament, all participants were to play different games with one another. Two players fell ill after having played three games each. If the total number of games played in the tournament is equal to 84 , the total number of participants in the beginning was equal to
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Correct option: B
15
Option B (15) is correct because solving the combination equation with the given conditions yields 15 as the total number of participants.
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Easy
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The product of consecutive positive integers is divisible by
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Correct option: A
!
Option A ( !) is correct because the product of consecutive positive integers can be expressed as , which is divisible by .
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In a steamer there are stalls for 12 animals and there are cows, horses and calves (not less than 12 of each) ready to be shipped. The total number of ways in which the ship load can be made is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because each of the 12 stalls can be filled with one of the 3 types of animals.
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