Placement Training Programme

Permutation Combination

Problem Solving:
1. How many words can be formed using all the letters of the word LAUGHTER so that
the vowels are never together?
(a) 14400 (b)3600 (c) 40320 (d) 36000

2. Three persons enter a railway carriage, where there are 5 vacant seats. In how many
ways can they seat themselves?
(a) 60 (b) 20 (c) 50 (d) 26

3. If the letters of the word CHASM are arranged to form 5 letter words and the words
formed are arranged as in a dictionary what is the rank of the word CHASM?
(a) 24 (b) 31 (c) 32 (d) 30

4. A person writes letter to six of his friends and addresses six envelopes with their
addresses. In how many ways can the letters be placed in the envelopes so that at least
two of them are in wrong envelopes?
(a) 119 (b) 120 (c) 720 (d) 719

5. In how many ways can a faculty team comprising of a professor, a lecturer and three
assistant lecturers be chosen out of a group that consists of 3 professor, 4 lecturer and 5
assistant lecturers?
(a) 30 (b) 60 (c) 120 (d) 240

6. There are 12 yes or no questions. How many can these be answered?

(a) 1024 (b) 2048 (c) 4096 (d) 144

7. In how many ways can four sweets be distributed among three people such that each
one of them gets at least one sweet?
(a) 36 (b) 24 (c) 42 (d) 72

8. Mandrake has to choose from 4 from 10 people. There are 3 girls, 5 boys , 2 children.
In how many ways he can choose 1G , 2B , 1C?
(a) 120 (b) 60 (c) 10 (d) 30

9. A college has 10 basketball players. A 5-member team and a captain will be selected
out of these 10 players. How many different selections can be made?
(a) 1260 (b) 210 (c) 10C6 * 6! (d) 10C5 * 6

10. How many ways can 4 prizes be given away to 3 boys, if each boy is eligible for all
the prizes?
(a) 256 (b) 12 (c) 81 (d) None of these

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Permutation Combination
11. In how many ways can the letters of the word ABACUS be rearranged such that the
vowels always appear together?

A. B. 3! * 3! C. D.

12. In how many ways can 5 letters be posted in 3 post boxes, if any number of letters
can be posted in all of the three post boxes?
(a) 5 C 3 (b) 5
P3 (c) 53 (d) 35
13. How many different signals can be made by 5 flags from 8-flags of different colours?

14. There are 5 Rock songs, 6 Carnatic songs and 3 Indi pop songs. How many different
albums can be formed using the above repertoire if the albums should contain at least 1
Rock song and 1 Carnatic song?

(a) 15624 (b) 16384 (c) 6144 (d) 240

15. In how many ways can the letters of the word MANAGEMENT be rearranged so that
the two As do not appear together?

(a) 10! - 2! (b) 9! - 2! (c) 10! - 9! (d) None of these

Reasoning:
1. A person travels 5 km towards west, then 10 km southwards, then travels left and then
travels 3 km towards east, and then 10 km northwards and finally goes 5 km
westwards. How far is he from the starting place?
(a) 10km (b) 7 km (c) 8 km (d) 12 km
2. Find the odd one out
(a) ZX (b) TR (c) OM (d) LJ (e) IF
3. If banana means apple, apple means orange, orange means mango, mango means
banana, then which fruit is red in colour?
(a) Apple (b) Orange (c) Banana (d) Mango
4. Considering that the alphabets are written from left to right, the letter which is fifth on
the right of the letter which is fourth on the right from D is
(a) O (b) L (c) N (d) M
5. Find the missing number:
24:15:: 63: ?
(a) 56 (b) 38 (c) 58 (d) 48

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