1.

In how many ways can 8 Indians and, 4 American and 4 Englishmen can be
seated in row so that all person of the same nationality sit together?
A.3! 4! 8! 4! B.3! 8! C.4! 4! D.8! 4! 4!
Answer: Option A
Solution: Taking all person of same nationality as one person, then we will have
only three people. These three person can be arranged themselves in 3! Ways.
8 Indians can be arranged themselves in 8! Way.
4 American can be arranged themselves in 4! Ways.
4 Englishman can be arranged themselves in 4! Ways.
Hence, required number of ways = 3! 8! 4! 4! Ways.

2. In how many ways can 10 examination papers be arranged so that the best and
the worst papers never come together?
A.144 B.288 C.12 D.256
Answer: Option A
Solution: No. of ways in which 10 paper can arranged is 10! Ways. When the best
and the worst papers come together, regarding the two as one paper, we have
only 9 papers. These 9 papers can be arranged in 9! Ways. And two papers can be
arranged themselves in 2! Ways. No. of arrangement when best and worst paper
do not come together = 10! - 9! × 2! = 9!(10 - 2) = 8 × 9!

3. A two member committee comprising of one male and one female member is
to be constitute out of five males and three females. Amongst the females. Ms. A
refuses to be a member of the committee in which Mr. B is taken as the
member. In how many different ways can the committee be constituted?
A.11 B.12 C.13 D.14
Answer: Option D
Solution: 5C1 × 3C1 – 1
= 15 – 1 = 14

4. In a party every person shakes hands with every other person. If there are 105
hands shakes, find the number of person in the party.
A.15 B.14 C.21 D.25

Answer: Option A
Solution: Let n be the number of persons in the party
Number of hands shake = 105

Total number of hands shake is given by nC2

Now, nC2=105

5. In the next World cup of cricket there will be 12 teams, divided equally in two
groups. Teams of each group will play a match against each other. From each
group 3 top teams will qualify for next round. In this round each team will play
against each other once. Four top teams of this round will qualify for the semifinal
round, where they play the best of three matches. The minimum number of
matches in the next World cup will be:
A. 54 B. 53 C. 38 D. 43 E. None of these
Answer: Option B
Solution: The number of matches in first round, = 6C2 +6C2
Number of matches in next round = 6C2 Number of matches in semifinals = 4C2
Total number of matches = 6C2 + 6C2 + 6C2 + 4C2 + 2 = 53

6. If the letters of word KUBER are written in all possible orders and arranged as in
dictionary , then the rank of the word KUBER will be
A.67 B.68 C.65 D.69
Option. A
solution: Total words starting with B = 4! = 24
Total words starting with E = 4! = 24
Total words starting with KB = 3! = 6
Total words starting with KE = 3! = 6
Total words starting with KR = 3! = 6
If Starting word will be KUBER, then rank of KUBER, = 24 + 24 + 18 + 1
= 67

7. A letter lock consists of 4 rings, each ring contains 9 non zero digits. This lock
can be opened by setting four digit code with the proper combination of each of
the 4 rings. Maximum how many codes can be formed to open the lock?

A. 49 B. 94 C. 9P4 D. None of these

Answer: Option B
Solution: There are 9 non-zero digits to arrange themselves at 4 different position.
Each letter can be arrange at different position in 9 different ways. So, required
number of ways, = 9 × 9 × 9 × 9= 94

8. 10 students are to be seated in two rows equally for the Mock test in a room.
There are two sets of papers, Code A and Code B each of two rows can have only
one set of paper but different that from other row. In how many ways these
students can be arranged?
A. 2775600 B. 125600 C. 7257600 D. 1200560 E. None of these
Answer: Option C
Solution: 5 students can be seated out of 10 students in 10C5 ways
Remaining 5 will be seated in = 5C5 ways
Students of each row can be arranged as = 5! × 5! Ways
Two sets of paper can be arranged themselves in = 2! Ways
Thus, Total arrangement = 10C5 × 5! × 5! × 2 = 7257600

9. 12 chairs are arranged in a row and are numberd 1 to 12. 4 men have to be
seated in these chairs so that the chairs numberd 1 and 8 should be occupied
and no two men occupy adjacent chairs. Find the number of ways the task can be
done.
A.360 B.384 C.432 D.470
Solution - 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12
If the third man occupy chair #3, then the fourth man has 5 options: 5, 6, 10, 11,
or 12;
If the third man occupy chair #4, then the fourth man has 4 options: 6, 10, 11, or
12;
If the third man occupy chair #5, then the fourth man has 3 options: 10, 11, or 12;
If the third man occupy chair #6, then the fourth man has 3 options: 10, 11, or 12;
If the third man occupy chair #10, then the fourth man has 1 options: 12.
Total of 5+4+3+3+1=16 cases. For each case the 4 men can be arranged in 4!
ways, thus the total number of arrangements is 16*4!=384.

10. From 6 men and 4 ladies, a committee of 5 is to be formed. In how many ways
can this be done, if the committee is to include at least one lady?
A.246 B.340 C.290 D.315
Answer: Option A
Solution: To committee can be formed in the following ways,
(1 lady + 4 gents) or (2 ladies + 3 gents) or (3 ladies + 2 gents) or (4 ladies + 1
gents) or (5 ladies + 0 gents).
Total number of possible arrangements,
= (4C1 × 6C4) + (4C2 × 6C3) + (4C3 × 6C2) + (4C4 × 6C1)
= 60 + 120 + 60 + 6 = 246

11. A question paper consists of three sections 4,5 and 6 questions respectively.
Attempting one question from each section is compulsory but a candidate need
not attempt all the question. In how many ways can a candidate attempt the
questions?
A.209 B.(4!-1) × (5!-1) × (6!-1) C.119 D.29295
Solution: At least 1 question from each section is compulsory, so from the 1st
section the candidate can attempt 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 questions. In each section each
question can be dealt with in 2 ways, i.e. either he attempts it or leaves it. So far 4
question there are 2(2)(2)(2) ways to attempt. As he has to attempt at least 1
question, the total number of ways in which he can attempt questions from 1st
section is 24-1
Similarly for the 2nd section there are 25-1 ways in which he can attempt and for
the 3rd section there are 26-1 ways.
The ways in which the attempts one or more questions in any section is
independent of the number of ways in which he attempts one or more questions
from the other sections. Thus, total number of ways in which he can attempt
questions in that paper: =(24-1)(25-1)(26-1)=15×31×63= 29295

12. In a hockey championship, there are 153 matches played. Every two team
played one match with each other. The number of teams participating in the
championship is:
A.18 B.19 C.17 D.16
Answer: Option A
Solution: Let there were x teams participating in the games, then total no. of
matches
n
C2 = 153 , On solving we get, n = −17 and n = 18 ,It can not be negative so n =18

13. In a get together every person present shakes the hand of every other person.
If there were 105 handshakes in all, how many person were present in the party?
A.16 B.15 C.13 D.14
Answer: option B
solution: nc2=15

14. A man positioned at the origin of the coordinate system. The man can take
steps of unit measure in the direction North, East, West or South. Find the
number of ways of he can reach the point (5,6) covering the shortest possible
distance.
A.252 B.432 C.462 D.504
Answer: Option C
Solution: In order to reach (5,6) covering the shortest distance at the same time
the man has to make 5 horizontal and 6 vertical steps. The number of ways in
which these steps can be taken is given by, =11!/(5!×6!)=462

15. There are 6 equally spaced points A,B,C,D, and E,F marked on a circle with
radius R. How many convex pentagons of distinctly different areas can be drown
using these points as vertices?
A. 6P5 B. 1 C.5 D. None of these
Answer: Option D
Solution: Since, all the points are equally spaced; hence the area of all the convex
pentagons will be same.

16. Find the total number of distinct vehicle number that can be formed using two
letters followed by two numbers. Letters need to be distinct.
A.60000 B.65000 C.70000 D.75000
Answer: Option B
Solution: Out of 26 alphabets two distinct letters can be chosen in 26P2 ways.
Coming to numbers part, there are 10 ways (any number from 0 to 9 can be
chosen) to choose the first digit and similarly another 10 ways to choose the
second digit. Hence, there are totally 10 × 10 = 100 ways. Combined with letters
there are, 26P2 × 100 = 65000 ways to choose vehicle numbers.

17. In a railway compartment, there are 2 rows of seats facing each other with
accommodation for 5 in each, 4 wish to sit facing forward and 3 facing towards
the rear while 3 others are indifferent. In how many ways can the 10 passengers
be seated?
A.172000 B.12600 C.45920 D.43200
Answer: Option D
Solution: The four person who wish to sit facing forward can be seated in: 5P4
ways and 3 who wish to sit facing towards the rear can be seated in: 5P3 ways
and the remaining 3 can be seated in the remaining 3 seats in 3P3 ways.
Total number of ways = 5P4 × 5P3 × 3P3= 43200

18. A family consist of a grandfather, 5 sons and daughter and 8 grandchildren.

They are to be seated in a row for dinner. The grandchildren wish to occupy the 4
seats at each end and the grandfather refuses to have a grandchild on either side
of him. The number of ways in which the family can be made to sit is:
A.21530 B.8! × 360 C.8! × 480 D.8! × 240
Answer: Option C
Solution: Total no. of seats = 1 grandfather + 5 sons and daughters + 8
grandchildren = 14.The grandchildren can occupy the 4 seats on either side of the
table in 4! = 24 ways. The grandfather can occupy a seat in (5 - 1) = 4 ways (4 gaps
between 5 sons and daughter). And, the remaining seats can be occupied in 5!
= 120 ways (5 seat for sons and daughter). Hence total number of required ways,
= 8! × 480

19. When six fair coins are tossed simultaneously in how many of the outcomes
will at most three of the coins turn up as heads?
A.25 B.41 C.22 D.42 E.31
Answer: Option D
Solution: The question requires you to find number of the outcomes in which at
most 3 coins turn up as heads. i.e., 0 coins turn heads or 1 coin turns head or 2
coins turn heads or 3 coins turn heads. The number of outcomes in which 0 coins
turn heads is, 6C0 = 1 outcome.
The number of outcomes in which 1 coin turns head is, 6C1 = 6 outcomes.
The number of outcomes in which 2 coins turn heads is, 6C2 = 15 outcomes.
The number of outcomes in which 3 coins turn heads is, 6C3 = 20 outcomes.
Therefore, total number of outcomes = 1 + 6 + 15 + 20 = 42 outcomes.

20. How many four letter distinct initials can be formed using the alphabets of
English language such that the last of the four words is always a consonant?
A.263 × 21 B.26 × 25 × 24 × 21C.25 × 24 × 23 × 21D. None of these
Answer: Option A
Solution: The last of the four letter words should be a consonant. Therefore,
there are 21 options. The first three letters can be either consonants or vowels.
So, each of them have 26 options. Note that the question asks you to find out the
number of distinct initials and not initials where the letters are distinct. Hence,
required answer = 26 × 26 × 26 × 21 = 263 × 21

21. In how many ways can the letters of the word EDUCATION be rearranged so
that the relative position of the vowels and consonants remain the same as in the
word EDUCATION?
A.9! × 4 B.9! × 4! × 5! C.4! × 5! D. None of these
Answer: Option C
Solution: The word EDUCATION is a 9 letter word, with none of the letters
repeating. The vowels occupy 3rd, 5th, 7th and 8th position in the word and the
remaining 5 positions are occupied by consonants. As the relative position of the
vowels and consonants in any arrangement should remain the same as in the
word EDUCATION, the vowels can occupy only the before mentioned 4 places and
the consonants can occupy 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th and 9th positions. The 4 vowels can
be arranged in the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 8th position in 4! Ways. Similarly, the 5
consonants can be arranged in 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th and 9th in 5! ways.

22. How many arrangments of four 0"s, two 1"s and two 2"s are there in which
the first 1 occur before the first 2?
A.420 B.360 C.320 D.210
Answer: Option D
Solution: Total number of arrangements = 8!/4!×2!×2! = 420 Since, there are
two 1's and two 0's, the number of arrangements in which the first 1 is before the
first 2 is same as the number of arrangement in which the first 2 is before the first
1 and they are each equal to half the total number of arrangements = 210

23. How many 5 digit positive integers exist the sum of whose digits are odd?
Answer: Option C
Solution: There are 9 × 104 = 90000, 5-digit positive integers.
Out of these 90000 positive integers, the sum of the digits of half of the numbers
will add up to an odd number and the remaining half will add up to an even
number. Hence, there are 90000/2 = 45000, 5-digit positive integers whose
sum add up to an odd number.
24. How many ways can 10 letters be posted in 5 post boxes, if each of the post
boxed can take more than 10 letters?
A.510 B.105 C.10P5 D.10C5
Answer: Option A
Solution: Each of the 10 letters can be posted in any of the 5 boxes. So, the first
letter has 5 options, so does the second letter and so on and so forth for all of the
10 letters. i.e.5 × 5 × 5 × . . . . × 5 (up-to 10 times) = 5 10

25. The number of ways of arranging n students in a row such that no two boys
sit together and no two girls sit together is m (m>100). If one more students is
added then number of ways of arraning as above increases by 200%. The value of
n is:
A.12 B.8 C.9 D.10
Answer: Option D
Solution: If n is even, then the number of boys should be equal to number of girls,
let each be a. n = 2a
Then the number of arrangements = 2 × a! × a!
If one more students is added, then number of arrangements = a! × (a + 1)!
But this is 200% more than the earlier 3 × (2 × a! × a!) = a! × (a + 1)!
a + 1 = 6 and a = 5
n = 10
But if n is odd, then number of arrangements = a!(a + 1)!
Where, n = 2a + 1
When one student is included, number of arrangements
= 2(a + 1)! (a + 1)!
By the given condition 2(a + 1) = 3, which is not possible.

26. How many factors of 2 5 * 3 6 * 5 2 are perfect square?

A.20 B.24 C.30 D.36
Answer: Option B
Solution: Any factor of this number should be of the form 2 a × 3b × 5c
For the factor to be a perfect square a, b, c have to be even.
a can take values 0, 2, 4, b can take values 0, 2, 4, 6 and c can take values 0, 2
Total number of perfect squares =3 × 4 × 2 = 24
27. Ten coins are tossed simultaneously. In how many of the outcomes will the
third coin turn up a head?
A. 2 10 B.29 C. 3×28 D. None of these
Solution:
Option(B) is correct
When a coin is tossed once, there are two outcomes. It can turn up a head or a
tail. When 10 coins are tossed simultaneously, the total number of outcomes =2 10
Out of these, if the third coin has to turn up a head, then the number of
possibilities for the third coin is only 1 as the outcome is fixed as head. Therefore,
the remaining 9 coins can turn up either a head or a tail, =2 9

28. A book-shelf can accommodate 6 books from left to right.If 10 identical books
on each of the languages A,B,C and D are available, In how many ways can the
book shelf be filled such that book on the same languages are not put adjacently.
A.40P6/6! B.10×95 C. 6P4 /2! D.4×35
Solution: Option(D) is correct
First place can be filled in 4 ways. (Since any book of the languages A,B,C and D
can be put) .The subsequent places can be filled in 3 ways each. (Since the other
three language books can be placed but not the book of the same language)
Hence, the number of ways,
=4×3×3×3×3×3 =4×35