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two 3's which are identical to each other. This complication is resolved as follows to get the answer:

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6x6

Since the 3 persons are entering during the jour-fiey they could have entered at the: l't station (from where they could have bought tickets for the 2n, 3'u,4fr or 56 stations or for pune -+ total of

5'tickets.)

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a team

of

ro be selected from 16, in how many ways can this be done?

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2'd station (from where they could have bought tickets

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fo1 thg 3'd, 4a or 5e stations or for pune 4 tickets.)

-> total of

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In how many ways can 18 identical white and 16 identical black balls be arranged in a row so th'at no two black balls are together?

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3'd station (from where they could have bought tickets for the 4th or 5t! stations or for Pune total of-3 tickets.)

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When 18 identical white balls are put in

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straight line, there will be l9 spaces created. Thus t6 black balls will have 19 places to fill in. This will give an answer of: reC,u. (Since, the balls are identical the arrangement is not important.)

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4n station (from where they could have bought tickets for $re 56 station or for Pune -+ tOtal of 2 tickets.) 5o station (from where they could have boughtii ticket {Qr Pune + total of 1 ticket.) Thus, we can see that theie are a total of 5 + 4 + 3 +' 2 + I : 15 tickets available out of which 3 tickets were This can be done in ,rC, ways (Answer).

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A mother with 7 children takes three at a

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time to a cinema. She goes with every group of three that she can form. How many times .t go to the cinema "u, with distinct groups of three children? "
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tl.tS Find the number of diagonals and triitfgles formed in a decagon.

A decagon has l0 verrices. A line is formed by selecting any two of the ten vertices. This can be drihe in 10C, ways. Horiiever, these toC, lines also count the sides
decagon.

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will be able to do this as many times

as

she can form a set of three distinct children from amongst 'the seven children. This essentially means that the answer

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Answer : 7Cr. \ 2nH"o"", -[y6blem 17.12 For the above question, how \ many times will an intlividual child go to the cinema with her before is rePeated?

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is the number of selections of 3 people out of

be done.

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by:10C, l0 (Answer) Triangles are formed by selecting any three of the ten . . vertices of the decagon.'Thi-s can be done in roC, ways

Thus, the number of diagonals in a decagon is given

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Out of 18 points in a plane, no three are M a shaight line except 5 which are collinear. How many

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5 rupee,

This can be viewed as: The child for whom we are trying to calculate the number of ways is already selected. !hen, we have to, select 2l more childrdn from amongst the remaining 6 to complete the group. This can be done in 6C, ways.
How many different sums can be formed

Answer : nCz- ('C, - t) = tBCz--tCr* | I .rupee, 50 plisa,25 paisa, 10 paisa and 1 paisa?"' \r161H"r.", / (Sdlution A distinct sum will be formed by selecting either \ lylblem 17.17 For the above situation, how many fti-

with the following

coins:

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straight lines can be formed? /<\ $blution If all 18 points were non-collinear thelr the answer would have been tsCr. However, in this case r8C, has double counting since the 5 collinear points are ah6 amongst the 18. These would have been counted as 5C, whereas they should have been counted as l. Thus, to rel move the double counting and get the correct answer we need to adjust by reducing the ooimt by (tCr- l). , .

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or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or all 6 coins. But from the formula we have the answer to this as

ahgles can bo formed?

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The triangles

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[Task for the stude+t: How many different sums can be formed with the following coins: 5 rupee, I rupee, 50, paisa, 25 paisa, l0 paisa, 3 paisa,

Hint: You will have to subtract some values for double

counted sums.l

17.18 A question paper had ten questions. Each could only be answered as True (T) or False (F). Each candidate answered all the,.question!.'ypt, no tw.O candidates wrote the answers in an identical sequence. How many different sequences of answers are possible?
(a) 20 (c) 5r2
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(b)

A rrdin is going from Mumbai to pune S@oOfem tZ.f and makes 5 stops on the way. 3 persons enter the during the journey with 3 different tickets. How many dif-i ferent sets of tickets may they have

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1024 unique sequences are possible. Op(d) is correct.

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( 17,19 When ten persons shake hands with ^ -another, in how many ways is it possible? n