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  • 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

  • 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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    • 1. 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
    • 2. 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
    • 3. 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
    • 4. 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
    • 5. 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
    • Discuss
    • 6. There are five cards lying on the table in one row. Five numbers from among 1 to 100 have to be written on them, one number per card, such that the difference between the numbers on any two adjacent cards is not divisible by 4. The remainder when each of the 5 numbers is divided by 4 is written down on another card (the 6th card) in order. How many sequences can be written down on the 6th card ?

    • Options
    • A. 4 x 3^4
    • B. 3^4
    • C. 4^3
    • D. 3 x 4^3
    • Discuss
    • 7. Jay wants to buy a total of 100 plants using exactly a sum of Rs 1000. He can buy Rose plants at Rs 20 per plant or marigold or Sun flower plants at Rs 5 and Re 1 per plant respectively. If he has to buy at least one of each plant and cannot buy any other type of plants, then in how many distinct ways can Jay make his purchase?

    • Options
    • A. 3
    • B. 6
    • C. 4
    • D. 2
    • Discuss
    • 8. In how many ways can 100 soldiers be divided into 4 squads of 10, 20, 30, 40 respectively?

    • Options
    • A. 1700
    • B. 18!
    • C. 190
    • D. None of these
    • Discuss
    • 9. What is the sum of all 3 digits number that can be formed using digits 0,1,2,3,4,5 with no repitition ?

    • Options
    • A. 28450
    • B. 26340
    • C. 32640
    • D. 36450
    • Discuss
    • 10. There are 3 bags, in 1st there are 9 Mangoes, in 2nd 8 apples & in 3rd 6 bananas. There are how many ways you can buy one fruit if all the mangoes are identical, all the apples are identical, & also all the Bananas are identical ?

    • Options
    • A. 23
    • B. 432
    • C. 22
    • D. 431
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