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JEE • MATHEMATICS • PERMUTATION AND COMBINATION
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There are ' ' numbered seats around a round table. Total num- ber of ways in which persons can sit around the round table is equal to
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because when seats are numbered, the arrangement is a linear permutation.
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- digit numbers are formed using only three digits 2,5 and 7. The smallest value of for which 900 such distinct numbers can be formed, is
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Correct option: D
7
Option D (7) is correct because 37 is the smallest power of 3 that exceeds 900, ensuring that at least 900 distinct numbers can be formed.
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Total number of four digit odd number that can be formed using and having distinct digits are
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Correct option: D
192
Option D (192) is correct because it accounts for the restrictions on the first and last digits to form a four-digit odd number with distinct digits.
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There are white similar balls and black balls of different size. No. of ways the balls can be arranged in a row so that adjacent balls are of different colours is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because there are two possible arrangements (black first or white first), and each color's balls can be arranged in (n+1)! ways.
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In a club election, the number of contestants is one more than the number of maximum candidates for which a voter can vote. If the total number of ways in which a voter can vote be 62, then the number of candidates is
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Correct option: C
6
Option C (20) is correct because it represents the number of ways to arrange the boys and girls in decreasing order of height.
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If the number of ways of selecting coupons out of an unlimited number of coupons bearing the letters A, T, M, so that they cannot be used to spell the word MAT is 93, then is equal to
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Correct option: B
5
Option B (5) is correct because it satisfies the condition that the number of ways of selecting K coupons such that they cannot spell MAT is 93.
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The permutations of objects taken
(i) atleast objects at a time
(ii) atmost objects at a time
(if repetition of the objects is allowed) are respectively
(i) atleast objects at a time
(ii) atmost objects at a time
(if repetition of the objects is allowed) are respectively
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Correct option: D
None of these
Option D (None of these) is correct because the correct formulas for permutations with repetition allowed are different from the given options.
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Ten different letters of an alphabet are given. Words with five letters are formed from these given letters. Then the number of words which have at least one letter repeated, is
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Correct option: A
69760
The correct answer is A (69760) because it represents the number of 5-letter words with at least one letter repeated, formed from 10 different letters.
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The value of up to term up to term is equal to :
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Correct option: C
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Option C (1+(52)!) is correct because after simplifying the expression, the result equals 1+(52)!
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The total number of ways in which five '' and three '' signs can be arranged in a line such that no two '' sign occur together, is
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Correct option: B
20
Option B (20) is correct because arranging 5 '+' signs creates 6 gaps where 3 '-' signs can be placed such that no two '-' signs are together, resulting in ways.
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Out of thirty points in a plane, eight of them are collinear. The number of straight lines that can be formed by joining these points, is
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Correct option: C
408
Option C (408) is correct because the total number of lines formed by 30 points with 8 collinear points is .
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If the letters of the word KRISNA are arranged in all possible ways and these words are written out as in a dictionary, then the rank of the word KRISNA is
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Correct option: A
324
Option A (324) is correct because it accurately calculates the rank of the word KRISNA in a dictionary arrangement.
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The number of 6-digit numbers that can be made with the digits and and having exactly two pairs of digits is
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Correct option: C
1080
Option C (1080) is correct because the number of ways to select two digits to appear twice is , and the number of arrangements is .
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The integers from 1 to 1000 are written in order around a circle. Starting at 1, every fifteenth number is marked (i.e. 1, 16, 31 etc.) This process is continued until a number is reached which has already been marked, then unmarked numbers are
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Correct option: D
800
Option D (800) is correct because after marking every fifteenth number until a repetition, 800 numbers remain unmarked.
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The number of three digit numbers of the form such that and , is
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Correct option: C
276
Option C (276) is correct because it represents the total count of three-digit numbers satisfying the given conditions and with , calculated using summation.
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Let and be two 3-digit numbers, then the pairs of and can be formed, so that can be subtracted from without borrowing, is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is the correct answer because it represents the total number of ways to form the pairs and such that can be subtracted from without borrowing.
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is selected from the set and the number is formed. Total number of ways of selecting , so that the formed number is divisible by 4, is equal to
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Correct option: B
49
Option B (49) is correct because only even values of n make divisible by 4, and there are 49 even numbers between 2 and 100 inclusive.
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ABCD is a convex quadrilateral. and 6 points are marked on the sides and respectively. The number of triangles with vertices on different sides is
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Correct option: A
342
Option A (342) is correct because it sums the number of triangles formed by choosing one vertex from each of the three sides in all possible combinations.
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Nine hundred distinct N –digit numbers are to be formed by using 6, 8 and 9 only. The smallest
value of N for which this is possible is
value of N for which this is possible is
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Correct option: B
7
The correct answer is D () because it is the simplified form of the geometric series using complex number properties.
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Nine toys are to be packed in 9 boxes. If 5 of them are too big for 3 boxes, then the number of ways in which they can be packed is
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Correct option: A
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Option A () is correct because it represents the number of ways to pack the 5 big toys into the 6 suitable boxes, and then pack the remaining 4 toys into the remaining 4 boxes.
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The number of ways in which the letters of the word VOWEL can be arranged so that the letters O, E occupy only even places, is
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Correct option: A
12
Option A (12) is correct because it calculates the number of ways to arrange the letters of the word VOWEL such that O and E occupy only even places.
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is equal to
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Correct option: A
Option A is correct because the ratio of combinations can be simplified to the given expression by expanding the factorials and cancelling terms.
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Two teachers are taking 6 students to a zoo. The teachers decide to split up. Each student must choose one of the teachers, with the condition that each teacher must take at least one student. Number of possible ways of doing this is:
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Correct option: B
62
Option B (62) is correct because it represents the total number of ways the students can be divided between the two teachers, ensuring each teacher has at least one student.
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Let number of -digit positive integers formed by the digits 0, 1 or both such that no consecutive digits in them is 0.
Let number of such digit integers ending with digit 1, and the numner of such digit integers ending with digit 0, then for ,
Let number of such digit integers ending with digit 1, and the numner of such digit integers ending with digit 0, then for ,
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because the total number of n-digit integers is the sum of those ending in 1 and those ending in 0.
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The number of ways in which the digits , 2,1 can be arranged so that the odd digits always occupy the odd places, is
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Correct option: C
18
Option C (18) is correct because the odd digits (1, 3, 3, 1) can be arranged in odd places in ways, and the even digits (2, 4, 2) can be arranged in even places in ways, so the total number of ways is .
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The number of arrangements of letters of the word 'BANANA' in which the two N's do not appear together is
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Correct option: A
40
Option A (40) is correct because it's the total arrangements minus arrangements where the two N's are together.
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If two numbers are selected from numbers 1 to 25, then the number of ways that their difference does not exceed 10 is
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Correct option: D
None of these
Option D (None of these) is correct because the calculated number of ways does not match any of the given options.
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Six boys and six girls sit along a line alternately in ways; and along a circle again alternatively in ways, then
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Correct option: D
Option D (x=12y) is correct because the ratio of linear to circular arrangements with alternating boys and girls is 12.
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In a certain test, there are questions. In this test, students gave wrong answers to atleast questions, where If the total number of wrong answers given is 2047, then is equal to
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Correct option: B
11
Option B (11) is correct because the total number of wrong answers can be expressed as a geometric series, which simplifies to 2^n - 1 = 2047, leading to n = 11.
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The number of permutations of all the letters of the word 'EXERCISES' is
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Correct option: B
30240
The correct answer is B (30240) because it is the number of permutations of the letters in 'EXERCISES' considering repeated letters.
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