MATHEMATICS
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FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF COUNTING
1. Find the number of 4 letter words, with or without What is the maximum number of students in the
meaning, which can be formed out of the letters of class, for this to be possible?
the word ROSE, when 11. How many numbers are there between 100 and
(a) The repetition of the letters is not allowed. 1000 such that at least one of their digits is 7?
(b) The repetition of the letters is allowed. 12. How many numbers are there between 100 and
2. Given 4 flags of different colours, how many 1000 which have exactly one of their digits as 7?
different signals can be generated, if a signal 13. Find the total number of ways in which n distinct
requires the use of 2 flags one below the other? objects can be put into two different boxes.
3. Find the number of different signals that can be 14. Find the total number of ways in which n distinct
generated by arranging at least 2 flags in order objects can be put into two different boxes so that
(one below the other) on a vertical staff, if five no box remains empty.
different flags are available. 15. By using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (repetition
4. How many three-digit numbers can be formed not allowed) numbers are formed by using any
without using the digits 0, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6? number of digits. Find the total number of non-
5. How many numbers are there between 100 and zero numbers that can be formed.
1000 in which all the digits are distinct? 16. A mint prepares metallic calendars specifying
6. How many numbers between 3000 and 4000 can months, dates and days in the form of monthly
be formed from the digits 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, no sheets (one plate for each month). How many
digit being repeated in any number? calendars should it prepare to serve for all the
7. How many numbers divisible by 5 and lying possibilities in future years?
between 4000 and 5000 can be formed from the 17. How many four-digit natural numbers not
digits 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. exceeding 4321 can be formed with the digits 1, 2,
8. How many four-digit numbers can be formed 3 and 4, if digits can repeat?
using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, if 18. How many five-digit telephone numbers can be
(a) Repetition of digits is not allowed. constructed using the digits 0 to 9. If each number
(b) Repetition of digits is allowed. starts with 67 and no digit appears more than
9. A mint prepares metallic calendars specifying once?
months, dates and days in the form of monthly 19. Three dice are rolled. Find the number of possible
sheets (one plate for each month). How many outcomes in which at least one die shows 5.
types of February calendars should it prepare to 20. There are 10 lamps in a hall. Each one of them can
serve for all the possibilities in the future years? be switched on independently. Find the number of
10. For a set of five true/false type questions, no ways in which the hall can be illuminated.
student has written all correct answers and no two
students have given the same sequence of answers.
Answers
1. (a) 24 (b) 256 12. 225
2. 12 13. 2 n
3. 320 14. 2n − 2
4. 64 15. 1630
5. 648 16. 14
6. 60 17. 229
7. 25 18. 336
8. (a) 300 (b) 1080 19. 91
9. 14 20. 210 − 1
10. 31
11. 252
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