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ELEMENTARY PROBLEMS ON PERMUTATION & COMBINATION

NOTE : USE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF COUNTING & ENJOY DOING THE FOLLOWING.
1. How many natural numbers are their from 1 to 1000 which have none of their digits repeated.
2. 3 different railway passes are allotted to 5 students. The number of ways this can be done is :
(A) 60 (B) 20 (C) 15 (D) 10
3. There are 6 roads between A & B and 4 roads between B & C.
(i) In how many ways can one drive from A to C by way of B ?
(ii) In how many ways can one drive from A to C and back to A, passing through B on both trips ?
(iii) In how many ways can one drive the circular trip described in (ii) without using the same road
more than once.
4. (i) How many car number plates can be made if each plate contains 2 different letters of English
alphabet, followed by 3 different digits.
(ii) Solve the problem, if the first digit cannot be 0.
5. (i) Find the number of four letter word that can be formed from the letters of the word HISTORY.
(each letter to be used atmost once)
(ii) How many of them contain only consonants?
(iii) How many of them begin & end in a consonant?
(iv) How many of them begin with a vowel?
(v) How many contain the letters Y?
(vi) How many begin with T & end in a vowel?
(vii) How many begin with T & also contain S?
(viii) How many contain both vowels?
6. If repetitions are not permitted
(i) How many 3 digit numbers can be formed from the six digits 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 & 9 ?
(ii) How many of these are less than 400 ?
(iii) How many are even ?
(iv) How many are odd ?
(v) How many are multiples of 5 ?
7. How many two digit numbers are there in which the tens digit and the units digit are different and
odd ?
8. Every telephone number consists of 7 digits. How many telephone numbers are there which do not
include any other digits but 2 , 3 , 5 & 7 ?
9. Find the number of 7 lettered palindromes which can be formed using the letters from the English
alphabets.
10. Number of ways in which 7 different colours in a rainbow can be arranged if green is always in the

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middle.
11. Number of 4 digit numbers of the form N = abcd which satisfy following three conditions :
(i) 4000 N < 6000 (ii) N is multiple of 5 (iii) 3 b < c 6
is equal to
(A) 12 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 48
12. Find the number of ways in which the letters of the word "MIRACLE" can be arranged if vowels
always occupy the odd places.
13. The number of 10-digit numbers such that the product of any two consecutive digits in the number is a
prime number, is
(A) 1024 (B) 2048 (C) 512 (D) 64
14. A letter lock consists of three rings each marked with 10 different letters. Find the number of ways in
which it is possible to make an unsuccessful attempts to open the lock.
15. How many 10 digit numbers can be made with odd digits so that no two consecutive digits are same.

ANSWER KEY
1. 738 2. (A) 3. (i) 24 (ii) 576 (iii) 360
4. (i) 468000; (ii) 421200
5. (i) 840 (ii) 120 (iii) 400 (iv) 240 (v) 480
(vi) 40 (vii) 60 (viii) 240
6. (i) 120 (ii) 40 (iii) 40 (iv) 80 (v) 20
7. 20 8. 47 9. 264 10. 720 11. (C) 12. 576
13. (B) 14. 999 15. 5.49
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RACE # 02 (PERMUTATION & COMBINATION ) MATH EM ATI CS

1. Out of seven consonants and four vowels, the number of words of six letters, formed by taking four
consonants and two vowels is (Assume that each ordered group of letter is a word):
(A) 210 (B) 462 (C) 151200 (D) 332640
2. All possible three digits even numbers which can be formed with the condition that if 5 is one of the
digit, then 7 is the next digit is :
(A) 5 (B) 325 (C) 345 (D) 365
3. Number of 5 digit numbers which are divisible by 5 and each number containing the digit 5, digits being
all different is equal to k(4!), the value of k is
(A) 84 (B) 168 (C) 188 (D) 208
4. The number of six digit numbers that can be formed from the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 so that digits do
not repeat and the terminal digits are even is :
(A) 144 (B) 72 (C) 288 (D) 720
5. Consider the five points comprising of the vertices of a square and the intersection point of its diagonals.
How many triangles can be formed using these points?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10
6. A 5 digit number divisible by 3 is to be formed using the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 without repetition.
The total number of ways this can be done is :
(A) 3125 (B) 600 (C) 240 (D) 216
7. Number of 9 digits numbers divisible by nine using the digits from 0 to 9 if each digit is used atmost
once is K · 8 ! , then K has the value equal to ______.
8. Number of natural numbers less than 1000 and divisible by 5 can be formed with the ten digits, each
digit not occuring more than once in each number is ______ .
9. Number of 3 digit numbers in which the digit at hundredth's place is greater than the other two digit is
(A) 285 (B) 281 (C) 240 (D) 204
10. Number of permutations of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 taken all at a time, such that the digit
1 appearing somewhere to the left of 2
3 appearing to the left of 4 and
5 somewhere to the left of 6, is
(e.g. 815723946 would be one such permutation)
(A) 9 · 7! (B) 8! (C) 5! · 4! (D) 8! · 4!
11. Number of odd integers between 1000 and 8000 which have none of their digits repeated, is
(A) 1014 (B) 810 (C) 690 (D) 1736
12. The number of ways in which 5 different books can be distributed among 10 people if each person can
get at most one book is :

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(A) 252 (B) 105 (C) 510 (D) 10C .5!
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13. A new flag is to be designed with six vertical strips using some or all of the colours yellow, green, blue and
red. Then, the number of ways this can be done such that no two adjacent strips have the same colour is -
(A) 12 × 81 (B) 16 × 192 (C) 20 × 125 (D) 24 × 216
14. 5 Indian & 5 American couples meet at a party & shake hands . If no wife shakes hands with her own
husband & no Indian wife shakes hands with a male, then the number of hand shakes that takes place in
the party is :
(A) 95 (B) 110 (C) 135 (D) 150
15. There are 720 permutations of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Suppose these permutations are arranged from
smallest to largest numerical values, beginning from 1 2 3 4 5 6 and ending with 6 5 4 3 2 1.
(a) What number falls on the 124th position?
(b) What is the position of the number 321546?

ANSWER KEY
1. (C) 2. (D) 3. (B) 4. (D) 5. (C) 6. (D)
7. K = 17 8. 154 9. (A) 10. (A) 11. (D) 12. (D)
13. (A) 14. (C) 15. (a) 213564, (b) 267th
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1. The 9 horizontal and 9 vertical lines on an 8 × 8 chessboard form 'r' rectangles and 's' squares. The ratio
s
in its lowest terms is -
r
1 17 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) none
6 108 27
2. A student has to answer 10 out of 13 questions in an examination . The number of ways in which he can
answer if he must answer atleast 3 of the first five questions is :
(A) 276 (B) 267 (C) 80 (D) 1200
3. Number of different natural numbers which are smaller than two hundred million & using only the digits
1 or 2 is :
(A) (3) . 28 2 (B) (3) . 28 1 (C) 2(29 1) (D) none
4. The number of n digit numbers which consists of the digits 1 & 2 only if each digit is to be used atleast
once, is equal to 510 then n is equal to
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10
5. Number of six digit numbers which have 3 digits even & 3 digits odd, if each digit is to be used atmost
once is ______ .
6. Find the number of 10 digit numbers using the digits 0, 1, 2, ....... 9 without repetition. How many of
these are divisible by 4.
7. There are counters available in x different colours. The counters are all alike except for the colour. The
total number of arrangements consisting of y counters, assuming sufficient number of counters of each
colour, if no arrangement consists of all counters of the same colour is :
(A) xy x (B) xy y (C) yx x (D) yx y
8. A committee of 5 is to be chosen from a group of 9 people. Number of ways in which it can be formed
if two particular persons either serve together or not at all and two other particular persons refuse to
serve with each other, is
(A) 41 (B) 36 (C) 47 (D) 76
9. A question paper on mathematics consists of twelve questions divided into three parts A, B and C, each
containing four questions. In how many ways can an examinee answer five questions, selecting atleast one
from each part.
(A) 624 (B) 208 (C) 1248 (D) 2304
10. If m denotes the number of 5 digit numbers if each successive digits are in their descending order of
magnitude and n is the corresponding figure, when the digits are in their ascending order of magnitude
then (m – n) has the value
(A) 10C4 (B) 9C5 (C) 10C3 (D) 9C3
11. There are m points on a straight line AB & n points on the line AC none of them being the point A.
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(i) A is excluded (ii) A is included. The ratio of number of triangles in the two cases is:
m n 2 m n 2 m n 2 m ( n 1)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
m n m n 1 m n 2 ( m 1) ( n 1)

12. In a certain algebraical exercise book there are 4 examples on arithmetical progressions, 5 examples on
permutation-combination and 6 examples on binomial theorem . Number of ways a teacher can select for his
pupils atleast one but not more than 2 examples from each of these sets, is ______.
13. Find the number of ways in which two squares can be selected from an 8 by 8 chess board of size
1 × 1 so that they are not in the same row and in the same column.
14. Find the number of ways in which letters of the word VALEDICTORY be arranged so that the vowels
may never be separated.
15. A rack has 5 different pairs of shoes. The number of ways in which 4 shoes can be chosen from it , so
that there will be no complete pair is :
(A) 1920 (B) 200 (C) 110 (D) 80

ANSWER KEY
1. (B) 2. (A) 3. (A) 4. (C) 5. 64800 6. (20) . 8!
7. (A) 8. (A) 9. (A) 10. (B) 11. (A) 12. 3150
13. 1568 14. 967680 15. (D)
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RACE # 04 (PERMUTATION & COMBINATION ) MATH EM ATI CS

1. There are six periods in each working day of a school. Number of ways in which 5 subjects can be
arranged if each subject is allotted at least one period and no period remains vacant is
(A) 210 (B) 1800 (C) 360 (D) 3600
2. There are 10 red balls of different shades & 9 green balls of identical shades. Then the number of
arranging them in a row so that no two green balls are together is
(A) (10 !) . 11P9 (B) (10 !) . 11C9 (C) 10 ! (D) 10 ! 9 !
3. Number of ways in which 7 green bottles and 8 blue bottles can be arranged in a row if exactly 1 pair of
green bottles is side by side, is (Assume all bottles to be alike except for the colour).
(A) 84 (B) 360 (C) 504 (D) none
4. There are 10 straight lines in a plane, such that no 3 are concurrent and no 2 are parallel to each other. If points
of intersection of above lines are joined, then maximum number of lines thus formed are (including old
lines) -
(A) 610 (B) 620 (C) 630 (D) 640
5. Number of rectangles in the grid shown which are not squares is

(A) 160 (B) 162 (C) 170 (D) 185

6. All the five digits number in which each successive digit exceeds its predecessor are arranged in the
increasing order of their magnitude. The 97th number in the list does not contain the digit
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 8
7. A gentleman invites a party of m + n (m n) friends to a dinner & places m at one table T1 and n at
another table T2 , the table being round . If not all people shall have the same neighbour in any two
arrangement, then the number of ways in which he can arrange the guests, is
(m n) ! 1 ( m n) ! ( m n) !
(A) (B) (C) 2 (D) none
4 mn 2 mn mn
8. Consider a determinant of order 3 all whose entries are either 0 or 1. Five of these entries are 1 and four
of them are '0'. Also aij = aji 1 i, j 3. Find the number of such determinants.
9. A four digit number is called a doublet if any of its digit is the same as only one neighbour. For example,
1221 is a doublet but 1222 is not. Number of such doublets are
(A) 2259 (B) 2268 (C) 2277 (D) 2349
10. In a unique hockey series between India & Pakistan, they decide to play on till a team wins 5 matches.
The number of ways in which the series can be won by India, if no match ends in a draw is :
(A) 126 (B) 252 (C) 225 (D) none

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11. A team of 8 students goes on an excursion, in two cars, of which one can seat 5 and the other only 4. If
internal arrangement inside the car does not matter then the number of ways in which they can travel, is
(A) 91 (B) 182 (C) 126 (D) 3920
12. One hundred management students who read at least one of the three business magazines are surveyed
to study the readership pattern. It is found that 80 read Business India, 50 read Business world, and 30
read Business Today. Five students read all the three magazines. How many read exactly two magazines?
(A) 50 (B) 10 (C) 95 (D) 65
13. Six people are going to sit in a row on a bench. A and B are adjacent, C does not want to sit adjacent
to D. E and F can sit anywhere. Number of ways in which these six people can be seated, is
(A) 200 (B) 144 (C) 120 (D) 56

MATCH THE COLUMN

14. Column-I Column-II
(A) Number of increasing permutations of m symbols are there from the n set (P) nm
numbers {a1, a2, , an} where the order among the numbers is given by
a1 < a2 < a3 < an–1 < an is
(B) There are m men and n monkeys. Number of ways in which every monkey (Q) mC
n

has a master, if a man can have any number of monkeys

(C) Number of ways in which n red balls and (m – 1) green balls can be arranged (R) nC
m

in a line, so that no two red balls are together, is

(balls of the same colour are alike)
(D) Number of ways in which 'm' different toys can be distributed in 'n' children (S) mn
if every child may receive any number of toys, is
15. On the normal chess board as shown, I1 & I2 are two insects which
starts moving towards each other. Each insect moving with the same
constant speed . Insect I1 can move only to the right or upward along the
lines while the insect I2 can move only to the left or downward along the
lines of the chess board. Find the total number of ways the
two insects can meet at same point during their trip.

ANSWER KEY
1. (B) 2. (B) 3. (C) 4. (D) 5. (A) 6. (B)
7. (A) 8. 12 9. (B) 10. (A) 11. (C) 12. (A)
13. (B) 14. (A)-R; (B)-S; (C)-Q; (D)-P 15. 12870
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1. Number of cyphers at the end of 2002C1001 is

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 200
2. Three vertices of a convex n sided polygon are selected. If the number of triangles that can be constructed
such that none of the sides of the triangle is also the side of the polygon is 30, then the polygon is a
(A) Heptagon (B) Octagon (C) Nonagon (D) Decagon
3. Given 11 points, of which 5 lie on one circle, other than these 5, no 4 lie on one circle. Then the
maximum number of circles that can be drawn so that each contains atleast three of the given points is :
(A) 216 (B) 156 (C) 172 (D) none
4. Number of 5 digit numbers divisible by 25 that can be formed using only the digits
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 0 taken five at a time is
(A) 2 (B) 32 (C) 42 (D) 52
5. There are 12 guests at a dinner party. Supposing that the master and mistress of the house have fixed
seats opposite one another, and that there are two specified guests who must always, be placed next to
one another ; the number of ways in which the company can be placed, is:
(A) 20 . 10! (B) 22 . 10! (C) 44 . 10! (D) none
6. Let Pn denotes the number of ways of selecting 3 people out of 'n' sitting in a row, if no two of them
are consecutive and Qn is the corresponding figure when they are in a circle. If Pn Qn = 6, then 'n' is
equal to :
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 12
7. Define a 'good word' as a sequence of letters that consists only of the letters A, B and C and in which A
never immediately followed by B, B is never immediately followed by C, and C is never immediately
followed by A. If the number of n-letter good words are 384, find the value of n.
8. Six married couple are sitting in a room. Find the number of ways in which 4 people can be selected so that
(a) they do not form a couple (b) they form exactly one couple
(c) they form at least one couple (d) they form atmost one couple
9. Let m denote the number of ways in which 4 different books are distributed among 10 persons, each
receiving none or one only and let n denote the number of ways of distribution if the books are all alike.
Then :
(A) m = 4n (B) n = 4m (C) m = 24n (D) none
10. Number of 7 digit numbers the sum of whose digits is 61 is :
(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 28 (D) none
11. The number of ways of choosing a committee of 2 women & 3 men from 5 women & 6 men, if Mr. A
refuses to serve on the committee if Mr. B is a member & Mr. B can only serve, if Miss C is the member
of the committee, is
(A) 60 (B) 84 (C) 124 (D) none
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if A must have either B or C on his right and B must have either C or D on his right is :
(A) 36 (B) 12 (C) 24 (D) 18
13. There are 2 identical white balls, 3 identical red balls and 4 green balls of different shades. The number
of ways in which they can be arranged in a row so that atleast one ball is separated from the balls of the
same colour, is :
(A) 6 (7 ! 4 !) (B) 7 (6 ! 4 !) (C) 8 ! 5! (D) none
14. Product of all the even divisors of N = 1000, is
(A) 32 · 102 (B) 64 · 214 (C) 64 · 1018 (D) 128 · 106
15. Consider the word W = MISSISSIPPI
(a) If N denotes the number of different selections of 5 letters from the word W = MISSISSIPPI then
N belongs to the set
(A) {15, 16, 17, 18, 19} (B) {20, 21, 22, 23, 24}
(C) {25, 26, 27, 28, 29} (D) {30, 31, 32, 33, 34}
(b) Number of ways in which the letters of the word W can be arranged if atleast one vowel is separated
from rest of the vowels

8!·161 8!·161 8!·161 8! 165

(A) 4!· 4!· 2! (B) 4 · 4!· 2! (C) 4!· 2! (D) 4!· 2! · 4!

(c) If the number of arrangements of the letters of the word W if all the S's and P's are separated is

10!
(K) , then K equals -
4!· 4!

6 4 3
(A) (B) 1 (C) (D)
5 3 2
16. The maximum number of permutations of 2n letters in which there are only a's & b's, taken all at a time
is given by :

2nC 2 6 10 4n 6 4n 2
(A) n (B) . . ...... .
1 2 3 n 1 n

n 1 n 2 n 3 n 4 2n 1 2n 2 n . 1 . 3 . 5 ...... (2 n 3) (2 n 1)
(C) . . . ...... . (D)
1 2 3 4 n 1 n n!
17. Number of ways in which 3 numbers in A.P. can be selected from 1, 2, 3, ...... n is :
2
n 1 n n 2
(A) if n is even (B) if n is odd
2 4
2
n 1 n n 2
(C) if n is odd (D) if n is even
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18. The combinatorial coefficient n – 1Cp denotes
(A) the number of ways in which n things of which p are alike and rest different can be arranged in a
circle.
(B) the number of ways in which p different things can be selected out of n different thing if a particular
thing is always excluded.
(C) number of ways in which n alike balls can be distributed in p different boxes so that no box
remains empty and each box can hold any number of balls.
(D) the number of ways in which (n – 2) white balls and p black balls can be arranged in a line if black
balls are separated, balls are all alike except for the colour.
19. Which of the following statements are correct?
(A) Number of words that can be formed with 6 only of the letters of the word "CENTRIFUGAL" if
each word must contain all the vowels is 3 · 7!
(B) There are 15 balls of which some are white and the rest black. If the number of ways in which the
balls can be arranged in a row, is maximum then the number of white balls must be equal to 7 or
8. Assume balls of the same colour to be alike.
(C) There are 12 things, 4 alike of one kind, 5 alike and of another kind and the rest are all different.
The total number of combinations is 240.
(D) Number of selections that can be made of 6 letters from the word "COMMITTEE" is 35.
20. Number of ways in which the letters of the word 'B U L B U L' can be arranged in a line in a definite
order is also equal to the
(A) number of ways in which 2 alike Apples and 4 alike Mangoes can be distributed in 3 children so
that each child receives any number of fruits.
(B) Number of ways in which 6 different books can be tied up into 3 bundles, if each bundle is to have
equal number of books.
(C) coefficient of x2y2z2 in the expansion of (x + y + z)6.
(D) number of ways in which 6 different prizes can be distributed equally in three children.

ANSWER KEY
1. (B) 2. (C) 3. (B) 4. (C) 5. (A) 6. (C)
7. n=8 8. 240, 240, 255, 480 9. (C) 10. (C) 11. (C)
12. (D) 13. (A) 14. (C) 15. (a),(C) (b),(B) (c),(B)
16. (ABCD) 17. (CD) 18. (BD) 19. (ABD) 20. (ACD)
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