Permutations & Combinations Questions (855)

Find the number of ways in which 22 different books can be given to 5 students, so that two students get 5 books each and all the remaining students get 4 books each.
254. The number of words which can be formed using all the letters of the word "NARENDRABHAI" such that no two non-repeated letters occur together is:
Number of ways of voting = \({}^{10}C_1 + {}^{10}C_2 + {}^{10}C_3 + {}^{10}C_4\). The number of ways is:
How many ways are there to arrange the letters in the word GARDEN with the vowels in alphabetical order?
Let \(S = \{1, 2, 3, \ldots, 9\}\). For \(k = 1, 2, \ldots, 5\), let \(N_k\) be the number of subsets of S, each containing five elements out of which exactly k are odd. Then \(N_1 + N_2 + N_3 + N_4 + N_5 =\)
How many 4-letter words can be made from the letters of the word MATHEMATICS?
A man has three friends. The number of ways he can invite one friend everyday for dinner on six successive nights so that no friend is invited more than three times is
Total number of words that can be formed using all letters of the word BRIJESH that neither begins with I nor ends with B is equal to
Let a, b, \(c \in N\) such that \(a
How many numbers of five digits can be made having exactly two identical digits? How many of these will have the repeated digits in consecutive places?
Five persons entered the lift cabin on the ground floor of an 8-floor building. Suppose each of them can leave the cabin independently at any floor beginning with the first. Find the total number of ways in which each of the five persons can leave the cabin (a) at any one of the 7 floors(b) at different floors.
A teacher takes three children from her class to a zoo at a time, but she does not take the same three children to the zoo more than once. She finds that she went to the zoo 84 times more than a particular child has gone to the zoo. The number of children in her class is
Two packs of 52 cards are shuffled together. The number of ways in which a man can be dealt 26 cards so that he does not get two cards of the same suit and same denomination is
Find the number of three-digit numbers in which repetition is allowed and sum of digits is even.
The total number of five-digit numbers of different digits in which the digit in the middle is the largest is
We can consider two cases when three vertices of a triangle are on one base and when the vertices are on two bases of a regular hexagonal prism. Find the total number of such triangles.
Six cards and six envelopes are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and cards are to be placed in envelopes so that each envelope contains exactly one card and no card is placed in the envelope bearing the same number and moreover the card numbered 1 is always placed in envelope numbered 2. Then the number of ways it can be done is
\(n\) is selected from the set \(\{1, 2, 3, \ldots, 10\}\) and the number \(2^n + 3^n + 5^n\) is formed. Total number of ways of selecting \(n\) so that the formed number is divisible by 4 is equal to
An ordinary cubical dice having six faces marked with alphabets A, B, C, D, E, and F is thrown n times and the list of n alphabets showing up are noted. Find the total number of ways in which among the alphabets A, B, C, D, E, and F only three of them appear in the list.
There are 25 students in a class in which 15 boys and 10 girls. The class teacher selects either a boy or a girl for monitor of the class. In how many ways can the class teacher make this selection?
The number of three-digit numbers of the form \(xyz\) such that \(x
Suppose 32 objects are placed along a circle at equal distances. Let N be the number of ways can 3 objects be chosen from among them so that no two of the three chosen objects are adjacent nor diametrically opposite. Then the value of N is
At an election, a voter may vote for any number of candidates, not greater than the number to be elected. There are 10 candidates and 4 are of be elected. If a voter votes for at least one candidate, then the number of ways in which he can vote is
The total number of ways to arrange 6 \(A\)'s and 4 \(B\)'s in a row is \(\dfrac{10!}{6! \times 4!} = {}^{10}C_4\). What is the total number of ways?
The total number of six-digit natural numbers that can be made with the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, if all digits are to appear in the same number at least once is
A is a set containing n elements. A subset \(P_1\) of A is chosen. The set A is reconstructed by replacing the elements of \(P_1\). Next, a subset \(P_2\) of A is chosen and again the set is reconstructed by replacing the elements of \(P_2\). In this way, m (>1) subsets \(P_1, P_2, \ldots, P_m\) of A are chosen. The number of ways of choosing \(P_1, P_2, \ldots, P_m\) is
Seven athletes are participating in a race. In how many ways can the first three athletes win the prizes?
In how many ways can 10 persons take seats in a row of 24 fixed seats so that no two persons take consecutive seats?
The number of numbers between 2,000 and 5,000 that can be formed with the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 (repetition of digits is not allowed) and are multiple of 3 is
The number of 6-digit numbers that can be formed using the digits 0, 1, 2, 5, 7 and 9 which are divisible by 11 and no digit is repeated, is __________.
If \(A = \{x \mid x \text{ is a prime number and } x
A person has 6 friends and during a certain vacation he met them during several dinners. He found that he dinned with all the 6 exactly on one day, with every 5 of them on 2 days, with every 4 of them on 3 days, with every 3 on 4 days; with every 2 on 5 days. Furthers every friend was present at 7 dinners and every friend was absent at 7 dinners. The number of dinner(s) he had alone is equal to
Twenty-eight games were played in a football tournament with each team playing once against each of the others. How many teams were there?
In how many ways can the letters of the word INTERMEDIATE be arranged so that the two vowels do not occur together?
Two teams are to play a series of five matches between them. A match ends in a win, loss, or draw for a team. A number of people forecast the result of each match and no two people make the same forecast for the series of matches. The smallest group of people in which one person forecasts correctly for all the matches will contain \(n\) people, where \(n\) is
Find the number of words that can be made out of the letters of the word MOBILE when consonants always occupy odd places.
There are 5 points $P_1,P_2,P_3,P_4,P_5$ on the side $AB$, excluding $A$ and $B$, of a triangle $ABC$. Similarly there are 6 points $P_6,P_7,\ldots,P_{11}$ on the side $BC$ and 7 points $P_{12},P_{13},\ldots,P_{18}$ on the side $CA$ of the triangle. The number of triangles, that can be formed using the points $P_1,P_2,\ldots,P_{18}$ as vertices, is:
Some identical balls are arranged in rows to form an equilateral triangle. The first row consists of one ball, the second row consists of two balls and so on. If 99 more identical balls are added to the total number of balls used in forming the equilateral triangle, then all these balls can be arranged in a square whose each side contains exactly 2 balls less than the number of balls each side of the triangle contains. Then, the number of balls used to form the equilateral triangle is
There are 4 students for Physics, 6 students for Chemistry and 7 students for Mathematics gold medal. In how many ways can one of these gold medals be awarded?
In how many ways can 6 boys and 6 girls be arranged in a row so that no two boys and no two girls sit together?
The number of representations of the number 7056 as a product of 2 factors, is
Let a, b, c \(\in N\) such that \(a
There are \((n+1)\) white and \((n+1)\) black balls, each set numbered 1 to \(n+1\). The number of ways in which the balls can be arranged in a row so that the adjacent balls are of different colors is
Two women and some men participated in a chess tournament in which every participant played two games with each of the other participants. If the number of games that the men played between themselves exceeds the number of games that the men played with the women by 66, then the number of men who participated in the tournament lies in the interval:
The sum of all four-digit numbers that can be formed by using the digits 2, 4, 6, 8 (when repetition of digits is not allowed) is
The number of integers greater than 6,000 that can be formed, using the digits 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8, without repetition, is
There are 10 points on a plane of which no three points are collinear. If lines are formed joining these points, find the maximum points of intersection of these lines.
In how many different ways can a sum of Rs 20 be paid in one-rupee coins, 50-paisa coins and 25-paisa coins if each variety of coins is available in unlimited number?
60 words can be made using all the letters of the word BHBJO, with or without meaning. If these words are written as in a dictionary, then the 50th word is:
Let \(A\) be a set of \(n\) (\(\geq 3\)) distinct elements. The number of triplets \((x, y, z)\) of the \(A\) elements in which at least two coordinates is equal to