1. In an examination a student has to pass in each of the six subjects .

In how many ways can he

fail?
2. There are six questions in a question paper. In how many ways a student can solve one or more
Problems questions?
3. A candidate is required to answer six out of ten questions which are divided into groups each
containing five questions. In how many ways can he answer the question if he is not allowed to
attend more than four questions from a group ?

HAND SHAKES RELATED

4. In a party every person shakes hand with every other person if there was a total of a two ten
handshake in the party find the number of persons who were present in the party?
5. On the occasion of a certain meeting each member gave shaken to remaining members .If the
total shakens were 28 how many members were present for the meeting?

TEAM FORMATION

6. Out of five boys and two girls a group of three is to be formed to coordinate a cultural
program .In how many ways can it be formed if atleast one girl is to be included?
7. In how many ways can a batch of five teachers be selected out of ten teachers so that eldest is
excluded and youngest is included?
8. A committee of eight students is to be formed out of five boys and five girls .In how many ways
can it be done so that no. of girls is not less than no. of boys?
9. How many different groups can be selected for playing tennis out of four ladies and three
gentle man there being one lady and one gentle man on each side?
10. In how many ways can a team of eleven be chosen from fifteen football players if team captain
is always included?

BOOK ARRANGEMENT

11. In how many ways can five books on English, three on science, six on geography, be arranged on
a shelf so that the books on each subject are always together?
Tamil-https://youtu.be/SfMo8e9th70
English- https://youtu.be/70h0wP_yCns
12. In how many ways can ten books on English, eight books on physics be placed in a row on a
shelf so that two books on physics may not be together?
In how many ways can 21 books on English and 19 books on Hindi can be placed in a row on a
shelf so that two books on Hindi may not be together?
Tamil https://youtu.be/e50Hh64gQGk
English https://youtu.be/wFMDqxhWg9k
13. In how many ways can twelve different books be divided equally among
a. Four sets (or)groups b. three sets (or)groups
Tamil https://youtu.be/dKLL3eD4z6U
English https://youtu.be/s9q6Du9bxhA

INVITATION DISTRIBUTION
14. In a wedding ceremony, a person has 7 friends to invite. In how many ways can be send
invitation cards to them if he has four servants to carry the cards and deliver the same?
15. A person has 12 friends out of which 7 are relatives. In how many ways can be invite 6 friends
such that atleast four of them are relatives?

SHAPE FORMATION
16. Find the no. of. triangles formed by joining the vertices of a polygon of 12 sides?
17. Find the no. of. diagonals of a polygon of 12 sides?
18. Find the no. of. Triangles formed by 11 points (out of which 5 are collinear) in a plane?
19. There are 12 points in a plane out of which 5 are collinear. Find the no. of. Straight lines formed
by joining them?
20. If 7 parallel lines are intersected by another 7 parallel lines, find the no. of. Parallelograms
formed?
21. How many triangles can be drawn through points A, B, C, D, E, F and G on a circle?

BALL PROBLEMS

22. Find the no. of. Ways in which 4 identical balls can be distributed among 6 identical boxes, if not
more than one ball goes into a box?
23. In how many ways 5 white balls and 3 red balls be arranged in a row, so that no two red balls
are together?

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION

24. In how many ways can four prizes be given away to three students, when each student is
eligible for all the prizes?
25. Ten distance runners are participating in a 5000 metre race. In how many ways can the gold,
silver and bronze medals be won?
26. In how many ways can three prizes be distributed among four boys when no boys get all the
prizes?
27. A computer library has p copies of one software of copies of two softwares, r copies of 4
softwares, and single copies of s no. of. Software. In how many ways can those softwares be
distributed, if all are out of once?
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