Exercise for Session 2

1. If "Ps =20. "P,. then n equals

(a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 6 (d) 7
2. If Ps +5. "P = "P, then n+r equals
(a) 13 (b) 14 (c) 15 (d) 16
3. If m* P, =56 andm-"P, =24, then mP equals
"P,
(a) 20 (b) 40 (c) 60 (d) 80
4. If 2n*p,,:2n- P, =7:10, then "P, equals
(a) 60 (b) 24 (c) 120 (d) 6
5. In a train, five seats are vacant, the number of ways three passengers can sit, is
(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 30 (d) 60
6. Ifa denotes the number of permutations of x +2 things taken all at a time, b the number of permutations of x
things taken 11 at a time and c the number of permutations of (x - 11) things taken all at a time such that
a =182 bc, the value of x is
(a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 15 (d) 18
7. The number of nine non-zero digits such that all the digits in the first four places are less than the digit in the
middle and all the digits in the last four places are greater than that in the middle, is
(a) 48 (b) 7560 (c) 10080 (d) 576
8. Total number of words that can be formed using all letters of the word 'DIPESH that neither begins with l nor
ends with 'D' is equal to
(a) 504 (b) 480 (c) 624 (d) 696
9. The number of all five digit numbers which are divisible by 4 that can be formed from the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
(without repetition), is
(a) 36 (b) 30 (c) 34 (d) None of these
10. The number of words can be formed with the letters of the word 'MATHEMATICS' by rearranging them, is
11! 11
(a)
2!2!
(b) 1!
2!
(c)
2!2!2!
(d) 11!

17. Six identical coins are arranged in a row. The number of ways in which the number of tails is equal to the
number of heads, is
(a) 9 (b) 20 (c) 40 (d) 120
12. A train time table must be compiled for various days of the week so that two trains twice a day depart for three
days, one train daily for two days and three trains once a day for two days. How many different time tables can
be compled?
(a) 140 (b) 210 (c) 133 (d) 72
13. Five persons entered the lift cabin on the ground floor of an 8 floor house. Suppose each of them can leave
the cabin independentiy at any floor beginning with the first. The total number of ways in which each of the five
persons can leave the cabin at any one of the fioor, is
(a) 5 (b) 7 (c) 35 (d) 2520
14. Four die are rolled. The number of ways in which atleast one die shows 3, is
(a) 625 (b) 671 (c) 1256 (d) 1296
75. The number of 4-digit numbers that can be made with the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in which atleast two digits are
identical, is
(a) 4 - 5! (b) 505 (c) 600 (d) 120
16. There are unlimited number of identical balls of three different colours. How many arrangements of atmost 7
balls in a row can be made by using them?
(a) 2187 (b) 343 (c) 399 (d) 3279
 G Exercise for Session 3
1. How many words can be formed from the letters of the word 'COURTESY" whose first letter is C and the last
letter isY?
(a) 6! (b) 8! (c) 2(6)! (d) 2(7)!
2. The number of words that can be made by writing down the letters of the word 'CALCULATE'such that each
word starts and ends with a consonant, is
(b) 2(7)! (d) 3(7)!

3. The number of words can be formed from the letters of the word 'MAXIMUM', if two consonants cannot occur
together, is
(a) 4! (b) 3!x 4!
4|
(c) 3! (d)
3

4. Alltheletters of the word 'EAMCET' are arranged in all possible ways. The number of such arrangements in
which twO vowels are not adjacent to each other, is
(a) 54 (b) 72
(c) 114 (d) 360

5. How many words can be made from the letters of the word 'DELH=, if L comes in the middle in every word?
(a) 6 (b) 12 (c) 24 (d) 60
6. In how many ways can5 boys and 3 girls sit in a row so that no two girls are sit together?
(a) 5!x 3! (b) 'P, x 5! (c) °R x 5! (d) P, x3!
7. There are n numbered seats around a round table. Total number of ways in which n, (n, <n) persons can sit
around the round table, is equal to
(a) "Cn, (b) "Pa. (c) "C (d) "P
8. In how many ways can 7 men and 7 women can be seated around a round table such that no two women can
sit together?
(a) 7! (b) 7!x 6! (c) (6!)? (d) (7!?
9. The number of ways that 8 beads of different colours be string as a necklace, is
(a) 2520 (b) 2880 (c) 4320 (d) 5040

10. If 11 members of acommittee sit at a round table so that the President and secretary always sit together, then
the number of arrangements, is
(a) 9! x 2 (b) 10! (c) 10!x 2 (d) 11!
11. In how many ways can 15 members of a council sit along a circular table, when the secretary is to sit on one
side of the Chairman and the deputy secretary on the other side?
(a) 12!x 2 (b) 24 (c) 15!x 2 (d) 30
 Exercise for Session 4
1. If°C -6 = C3r +1, the value ofr is
(a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 10 (d) 12
2. If Cis +2(Ci6) + "Cie + 1= "C3, the value of nis
(a) 18 (b) 20 (c) 22 (d) 24
3. If 2°Cn+2 = "C6, the value of nis
(a) 7 (b) 10 (c) 13 (d) None of these

4. ir "C + 12-C, is equal to

(a) "cs (b) $Cg (c) S2C (d) None of these

5. If "C + "C, > nt 'C, then

(a)n> 6 (b)n< 6 (c)n>7 (d) n<7
6. The Solution set of °C, -1>2.°C, is
(a) (1, 2, 3) (b) (4, 5, 6) (c) (8, 9, 10) (d) (9, 10, 11)
7. If 2"C,: "Cz =9:2and "C, =10, then ris equal to
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5
8. If 2^C,:C =44:3,for which of the following value ofr, the value of "C, will be 15.
(a)r =3 (b)r = 4 (c)r =5 (d)r = 6
9. If "C, = "C,-,and "P, = "P,., the value of nis
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5
10. If "P, =840, ^C, =35, the value ofn is
(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) 7
11. If "P + "Cn-2 =14n, the value of nis
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 10
12. There are 12 volleyball players in all in a college, out of which a team of 9 players is to be formed. If the captain
always remains the same, in how many ways can the team be formed ?
(a) 36 (b) 99 (c) 108 (d) 165
13. In how many ways a team of 11 players can be formed out of 25 players, if 6 out of them are always to be
included and 5 are always to be excluded
(a) 2002 (b) 2008 (c) 2020 (d) 8002
14. A man has 10 friends. In how many ways he can invite one or more of them to a party?
(a) 10! (b) 20 (c) 10!- 1 (d) 20 1
15. In an examination, there are three multiple choice questions and each question has four choices. Number of
ways in which a student can fail to get all answers correct, is
(a) 11 (b) 12 (c) 27 (d) 63
16. In an election, the number of candidates is 1 greater than the persons to be elected. If a voter can vote in
254 ways, the number of candidates is
(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 10
17. The number of groups that can be made from 5 different green balls, 4 different blue balls and 3 different red
balls, if atleast one green and one blue ball is to be included
(a) 3700 (b) 3720 (c) 4340 (d) None of these
18. A person is permitted to select atleast one and atmost n coins from a collection of (2n + 1) distinct coins. If the
total number of ways in which he can select coins is 255, thenn equals
(a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 32
Exercise for Session 2
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (c) 4. (d) 5. (d) 6. (b)
7. (d) 8. (a) 9. (b) 10. (c) 11. (b) 12. (b)
13. (b) 14. (b) 15. (b) 16. (d)

Exercise for Session 3

1. (a) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (b) 5. (c) 6. (c)
7. (b) 8. (b) 9. (a) 10. (a) 11. (a)
Exercise for Session 4
1. (d) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (c)
7. (a) 8. (b) 9. (b) 10. (d) 11. (a) 12. (d)
13. (a) 14. (d) 15. (d) 16. (c) 17. (b) 18. (a)