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A)
i) ⁿP₂ = 12 find n. 4
ii) ⁿP₅ = 20. ⁿP₃ then find n. 8
iii) ⁿP₅ : ⁿP₃= 2 :1. 5
iv) ⁿP₃ : ⁿP₂=3:1. 5
v) ᵐ⁺ⁿP₂=56 and ᵐ⁻ⁿP₂=12 find the value of m,n. 6,2
vi) ¹⁰Pᵣ₋₁: ¹¹Pᵣ₋₂=30:11 find r. 7
vii) ⁵⁶Pᵣ₊₆ : ⁵⁴Pᵣ₊₃ = 30800 :1 find the value of r. 41
viii) ⁿP₁₃ : ⁿ⁺¹P₁₂ = 3:4find n. 15
ix) ²ⁿ⁺¹Pₙ₋₁ : ²ⁿ⁻¹Pₙ= 3:5. 4
x) ⁿ⁺ʳP₂ = 110 and ⁿ⁻ʳP₂=20 find the value of n,r. 8,3
xi) ⁿ⁺¹⁺ʳP₂ =72, ⁿ⁻ʳP₂=12 find the value n and r. 6,2
xii) Find H.F.C of 3!,5!,7!. 3!
xii) Find L. C. M of 3!,5!,7! 7!
xiii) Compute 8!/{(4!)(3!)}. 280
xiv) Convert in to factorial 6.7.8.9. 9!/5!
xv) (n+1)!=12(n-1)! Find n.
xvi) 1/9! +1/10! =n/11! Find n
xvii) Is 33! Divided by 2¹⁵
xviii) True or False
a)(2+3)!=2!+3!
b) (2x3)!=(2!)x(3!)
xix) Evaluate. n!/{(r!).(n-r)!} When
n=15 and r=12.
xx) (n+2)!=60(n-1) ! find n
xxi) (n+2)!=2550(n!) Find n
xxii) The value of 1.1!+ 2.2! +3.3!+4. 4! +............+n.n! (n+1)!-1
B) There are 10 trains moving between Calcutta and Delhi. In how many ways can a man go from Calcutta to Delhi and return by a different one ? 90
C) There are 26 stations on a railway line. How many different kinds of tickets of classII must be printed in order that a passenger may go from any one station to another by purchasing a ticket. 650
D) There are four bus lines between A & B and there are 3 bus lines between B & C. In how many ways can a man take round trips by bus from A to C by way of B, if he does not want to use a bus line more than once ? 132
1) You are given the letters of the word “MONDAY”. Find the number of arrangements in the following cases:
a) Without any restriction. 720
b) Words beginning with M. 120
c) Words beginning with Y. 120
d) Words beginning with M & ending with Y. 24
e) Words beginning with M & not ending with Y. 96
f) M & Y are at two extremes. 48
g) Vowels are together. 240
h) Vowels are never together. 480
i) Vowels occupy odd places. 144
j) Vowels occupy even places. 144
k) Constants are together. 144
l) How many words can be formed by taking four letters at a time. 360
m) In how many of these (given in previous question) M is always included? 240
n) In how many of these (given Q. no l) M is excluded ? 120
o) Number of rearrangement of the word MONDAY. 719
p) In how many words MO will be together. 240
2) In how many ways can 8 sweets of different sizes be distributed among 8 boys of different ages, so that
a) Largest sweet goes to the youngest. 40320
b) Smallest sweet goes to the older. 40320
c) Largest sweet goes to the youngest and smallest sweet goes to the older. 720
**3) Consider words formation with the letters of the word DELHI
a) How many arrangement can be formed with the letters DELHI? 120
b) How many of them will begin with D? 24
c) How many do not begin with D. 96
d) In how many words LH will be together ? 48
4) How many words can be formed of the letters of the word COASTING, the vowels being not separated ? 4320
5) In how many ways can the letters of the word"LAUGHTER" be arranged so that the vowels may never be separated? 4320
6) In how many ways can 8 examination papers be arranged in a row, so that the best and worst papers may never come together. 30240
7) How many words can be formed of the letters in the word ARTICLE so that the vowels may occupy only
a) the even positions. 144
b) the odd positions. 576
8) Find how many words can be formed by the letters in the word FAILURE, is the four vowels
a) always coming together. 576
b) never coming together. 4464
9) If the letters of the word JUXTAPOSED be arranged in all possible different ways, in how many of these will the vowels occur together? 120960
10) In how many ways can the letters of the word MOBILE be arranged so that the consonants always occupy the odd places? 36
11) In how many different orders can 8 examination papers be arranged in a row, so that the best and the papers may never come together ? 30240
12) The Number of ways in which 16 different books can be arranged on a shelf so that two particular books shall not be together is. 14.15!
13) Six papers are set in an examination, of which two are mathematical. In how many different orders can the papers be arranged so that
a) the two mathematical papers are together. 240
b) the two mathematical papers are not consecutive ? 480
14) In how many ways can 6 plastics beads of different colours be arranged so that the blue and green beads are never placed together? 480
15) In how many different ways can the letters of the vowels of the word VALEDICTORY be arranged so that the vowels are
a) never separated. 997680
b) not together. 38949120
16) In how many different ways can the letters of the word STRANGE be arranged so that the vowels are
a) never separated. 1440
b) not together. 3600
17) How many arrangements of the letters of the word COMRADE can be formed
a) If the vowels are never separated. 720
b) if the vowels are to occupy only odd places. 576
18) In how many ways can 3 boys and 5 girls be arranged in row so that no 2 boys are together? 14400
19) In how many ways can 5 boys and 4 girls be arranged in a row so that the boys and the girls stand alternatively. 2880
20) In how many ways can 5 boys and 5 girls be arranged in a row so that they stand alternatively. 28800
21) In how many ways 6 boys and 4 girls be arranged in a row so that no girls are together ? 604800
22) You are given the letters of the word BALLOON. Find the arrangement
a) Without any restriction. 1260
b) Two LL will always come together. 360
c) Two LL and two OO will always come together. 120
d) All the O's & the L's will come together. 144
e) Vowels are together. 180
f) B & N are together. 360
g) B & N are never together. 900
h) B,N & O's are together. 144
I) Two OO's together. 300
23) Find the number of arrangements that can be made out of the letters of the following words:
a) CALCUTTA. 5040
b) ACCOUNTANT. 226800
c) CONTACT. 1260
d) ATLANTIC. 10800
e) MATHEMATICS. 4989600
f) INSTITUTION. 554400
g) STATISTICS. 50400
h) ENGINEERING. 277200
I) MISSISSIPPI. 34650
** 24) All different words formed by the letters of the word BHARAT.
a) How many different words can be formed with the letters of the word BHARAT? 360
b) In how many of these B and H are never together. 240
c) How many of these begin with B and end with T ? 12
25) How many different words can be formed with the letters of the word CAPTAIN ? In how many of these C and T are never together ? 2520,1800
26) In how many ways can the letters of the word ALGEBRA be arranged? In how many of these arrangements will the two A's not come together ? 2520, 1800
27) Find how many different words can be formed from the letters of the word PEOPLE in which two P's would not remain side by side. 120
28) In how many different ways can the letters of the word CONSTITUTION be arranged ? How many of these will have the letter N both at the beginning and at the end ? 181000, 17600
29) The number of ways in which the letters of the word ARRANGE can be arranged that the two R's do not come together is:. 900
30) In how many ways can be letters of the word EXAMINATION be arranged so that all the A's always come together. 907200
31) In how many ways can the letters of the word AGARTALA be arranged ? 1680
32) taking data from the previous question, in how many of these will the 4 A's
a) come together. 120
b) not come together. 1560
33) In how many ways can 5 dots (.) and 3 crosses (x) be arranged in a row? 55
34) A library has 5 copies of one book, 4 copies of each of the two books, 6 copies of each of the 3 books and single copies of eight books. In how many ways can all the books be arranged ? 39!/{(5!) (4!)²(6!)³.
35) Find the number of different Arrangements that can be made of the seven prismatic colours (violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red) so that the violet and red shall never come together. 3600
36) There are six students of whom 2 are Indians, 2 Americans and the remaining are Russians. They have to stand in a line so that the two Indians are together, the 2 Americans are together, and also the 2 Russians are together. Find the number of ways in which they can do so ? 6
37) How many different arrangements can be made out of the letters in the expression x²y⁴z³ when written at full length ? 1260
38) How many 5 digits numbers can be formed with the digits 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 ? 720
39) Find the number of numbers greater than 2000 that can be formed with the digits 1 2,3,4,5. 216
40) How many numbers greater than 4000 can be formed with the digits 2,3,4,5 and 6. 192
41) How many numbers greater than 3000 can be formed with the digits 1,2,3,4,5. 192
42) How many 4 digit number greater than 6000 formed by 2,4,6,7, 8. 192
43) How many numbers can be formed with the digits 3,4,5,67,8
a) number of numbers formed. 720
b) divisible by 5. 120
b) Not divisible by 5. 600
44) How many numbers between 4000 and 5000 can be formed by 2,3,4,5,6,7. 60
45) How many numbers greater than 7000 can be formed with the digits 3,5,7,8 and 9 192
46) How many even numbers greater than 300 can be formed with the digits 1, 2,3,4,5 111
47) How many numbers can be formed with the digits 1,2,3,4,5? How many of them are greater than 3400 ? 180
48) How many 3 digit numbers are there, with distinct digits, with each digit odd ? 60
49) Find the total number of numbers divisible by 2 which can be formed with the digits 1,2,4,5,6 and 7. 360
50) How many 5 digit numbers formed with 0,1,2,3,4. 96
51) How many 4 digit numbers greater than 4000 formed with 0,2,3,4,6,7 180
52) How many 4 digit numbers can be formed by 0,1,2,3,45, 720
53) How many odd numbers of 6 digits can be formed with 0,1,2,3,4,5 288
54) How many numbers lying between 100 and 1000 can be formed with 2,3,4,0,8 and 9. 100
55) How many numbers greater than a million (10 lakhs) can be formed with 2,3,0,3,4,2,3. 360
56) How many numbers less than 1000 and divisible by 5 can be formed with 0,1,2,3,4.....9. 154
57) How many 5 numbers between 300 and 3000 can be formed with the digits 0,1,2,3,4,5 180
58) How many 4 digit numbers greater than 5000 can be formed with the digits 2,4,5,7,8,0. 360
59) How many numbers greater than 7000 can be formed with 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9 192
60) How many numbers each lying between 100 and 1000 can be formed with 2,0,3,4,5? How many of these are odd ? 48, 18
61) How many different numbers can be formed by using any four of the nine digits 1,2,3,.....9 such that their numbers will
a) begin with a specified digit. 336
b) begin with a specified digit and end with a specified digit? 42
62) How many 5 digit numbers formed with 2,3,5,7,9 which are
a) greater than 30000. 96
b) less than 70000. 72
c) lies between 30000 and 90000. 72
63) How many 4 digit numbers can be formed with 0,1,2,3,4....9. 4536
64) In how many ways 8 persons can be seated at a round table ? 5040
65) In how many ways can 7 persons be arranged at a round table so that 2 particular persons can be together? 240
66) Find the number of ways in which 5 beads can be arranged to form a necklace. 12
67) In how many ways can 4 MBA & 4MCA be seated at the round table so that no 2 MBA students are adjacent ? 144
68) In how many ways 7 Gentleman & 6 ladies sit down at a round table
a) Without restriction. 12!
b) Male and Female sit separately
c) No two ladies are together
d) Two particular ladies sit together
e) No two Gentlemen sit together
f) Sita will sit between Radha and
Gita.
69) In how many ways 8 stones of different colours be arranged on a ring ? In how many of these arrangements red and yellow beads being separated ?
70) A round table conference is to be held for a committee of 7 persons which includes President and Secretary. Find the number of ways the committee can be seated so that
a) The President and Secretary can sit together
b) The Secretary sits on the right side of the President
c) The President and the Secretary don't sit together.
d) Ram will be sit between President and Secretary.
71) How many ways EDUCATION will be arranged in circular with
a) No restriction
b) Vowels together
c) Consonants together
d) EDU together
e) Vowels never together
72) How many ways LOLLAABEE arrange in circular pattern with
a) without restriction
b) Vowels together
c) LLL's together
d) 3 LLL, 2 AA together
e) 3 LLL, 2 AA 2 EE together.
f) Constant never together.
73) Find the number of ways in which 8 different flowers can be strung to form garland
a) Without restriction
b) 4 particular flowers are never together
c) Using beads.