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- Question
A box contains 5 green, 4 yellow and 3 white marbles. Threemarbles are drawn at random. What is the probability thatthey are not of the same colour ?
Options- A. 40/44
- B. 44/41
- C. 41/44
- D. 40/39
- Correct Answer
- 41/44
Explanationn(E) = 5C3 + 4C3 + 3C3 = 10 + 4 + 1 = 15n(S) = 12C3 = 220
- 1. In how many ways the letters of the word 'CIRCUMSTANCES' can be arranged such that all vowels came at odd places and N always comes at end?
Options- A. 1,51,200 ways.
- B. 5,04,020 ways
- C. 72,000 ways
- D. None of the above Discuss
- 2. In how many ways can the letters of the word 'LEADER' be arranged ?
Options- A. 360
- B. 420
- C. 576
- D. 220 Discuss
- 3. How many 4-letter words with or without meaning, can be formed out of the letters of the word, 'LOGARITHMS', if repetition of letters is not allowed ?
Options- A. 5040
- B. 2525
- C. 2052
- D. 4521 Discuss
- 4. If the letters of the word VERMA are arranged in all possible ways and these words are written out as in a dictionary, then the rank of the word VERMA is :
Options- A. 108
- B. 117
- C. 810
- D. 180 Discuss
- 5. There are eight boxes of chocolates, each box containing distinct number of chocolates from 1 to 8. In how many ways four of these boxes can be given to four persons (one boxes to each) such that the first person gets more chocolates than each of the three, the second person gets more chocolates than the third as well as the fourth persons and the third person gets more chocolates than fourth person?
Options- A. 70
- B. 40
- C. 72
- D. 80 Discuss
- 6. In how many ways can an animal trainer arrange 5 lions and 4 tigers in a row so that no two lions are together?
Options- A. 2800
- B. 2880
- C. 2600
- D. 3980 Discuss
- 7. From a group of 7 men and 6 women, five persons are to be selected to form a committee so that at least 3 men are there on the committee. In how many ways can it be done?
Options- A. 564
- B. 735
- C. 756
- D. 657 Discuss
- 8. A box contains 2 white balls, 3 black balls and 4 red balls. In how many ways can 3 balls be drawn from the box, if at least one black ball is to be included in the draw?
Options- A. 48
- B. 64
- C. 63
- D. 45 Discuss
- 9. A standard deck of playing cards has 13 spades. How many ways can these 13 spades be arranged?
Options- A. 13!
- B. 13^2
- C. 13^13
- D. 2! Discuss
- 10. A tea expert claims that he can easily find out whether milk or tea leaves were added first to water just by tasting the cup of tea. In order to check this claims 10 cups of tea are prepared, 5 in one way and 5 in other. Find the different possible ways of presenting these 10 cups to the expert.
Options- A. 340
- B. 210
- C. 290
- D. 252 Discuss
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Correct Answer: 1,51,200 ways.
Explanation:
In circumcstances word there are 3C's, 2S's, I, U,R, T, A, N, E
Total = 13 letters
But last letter must be N
Hence, available places = 12
In that odd places = 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11
Owvels = 4
This can be done in 6P4 ways
Remaining 7 letters can be arranged in 7!/3! x 2! ways
Hence, total number of ways = 6P4 x 7!/3! x 2! = 360 x 5040/12 = 1,51,200 ways.
Correct Answer: 360
Explanation:
No. of letters in the word = 6
No. of 'E' repeated = 2
Total No. of arrangement = 6!/2! = 360
Correct Answer: 5040
Explanation:
The Word LOGARITHMS contains 10 letters.
To find how many 4 letter words we can form from that = =10x9x8x7 = 5040.
Correct Answer: 108
Explanation:
The number of words beign with A is 4!
The number of words beign with E is 4!
The number of words beign with M is 4!
The number of words beign with R is 4!
Number of words beign with VA is 3!
Words beign with VE are VEAMR
VEARM
VEMAR
VEMRA
VERAM
VERMA
Therefore, The Rank of the word VERMA = 4 x 4! + 3! + 6 = 96 + 6 + 6 =108
Correct Answer: 70
Explanation:
All the boxes contain distinct number of chocolates.
For each combination of 4 out of 8 boxes, the box with the greatest number has to be given to the first person, the box with the second highest to the second person and so on.
The number of ways of giving 4 boxes to the 4 person is: 8 = 70
Correct Answer: 2880
Explanation:
They have to be arranged in the following way :
L T L T L T L T L
The 5 lions should be arranged in the 5 places marked ?L?.
This can be done in 5! ways.
The 4 tigers should be in the 4 places marked ?T?.
This can be done in 4! ways.
Therefore, the lions and the tigers can be arranged in 5!´ 4! ways = 2880 ways.
Correct Answer: 756
Explanation:
We may have (3 men and 2 women) or (4 men and 1 woman) or (5 men only).
Required number of ways= = 756.
Correct Answer: 64
Explanation:
We may have(1 black and 2 non-black) or (2 black and 1 non-black) or (3 black).
Required number of ways= = (45 + 18 + 1) =64
Correct Answer: 13!
Explanation:
The solution to this problem involves calculating a factorial. Since we want to know how 13 cards can be arranged, we need to compute the value for 13 factorial.
13! = (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13) = 6,227,020,800
Correct Answer: 252
Explanation:
Since there are 5 cups of each kind,prepared with milk or tea leaves added first,are identical hence,total number of different people ways of presenting the cups to the expert is 10!/(5! x 5!)= 252
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