WSN #1.

5 IOQM Prep by
PJ SIR

Chapter: Basic Maths

L-0.5 Elementary Counting Techniques
Q 1) A person went to a restaurant for dinner. In the menu card, the person saw
10 Indian and 7 Chinese food items. In how many ways does the person select
either an Indian or a Chinese food?

Q 2) There are 3 types of toy car and 2 types of toy train available in a shop. Find
the number of ways a baby can buy a toy car and a toy train?

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Q 3) How many two-digit numbers can be formed using 1,2,3,4,5 without
repetition of digits?

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Q 4) Three people enter a conference hall in which there are 10 seats. In how
many ways can they take their seats?

Q 5) In how many ways 5 persons can be seated in a row? (Do you see the
introduction of factorial)
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Q 6) There are nine students (5 boys & 4 girls) in the class. In how many ways
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(i) One student (either girl or boy) can be selected to represent the class.
(ii) A team of two students (one girl & one boy) can be selected.
(iii)Two medals can be distributed. (no one get both)
(iv)One prize for Maths, two prizes for Physics and three prizes for
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Chemistry can be distributed.

(No student can get more than one prize in same subject & prizes are distinct)

Q 7) Find the number of integers from -3 to 10?

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Q 8) Find the number of ways to make a three digit number without any zero?

Q 9) Find your score in IOQM paper if you do 6 questions of 2 marks correctly, 4

questions of 5 marks out of which 3 are correct and 2 problems of 10 marks out
of which 1 is correct? Note that there is no negative marking in IOQM paper.

Note: Please Attempt Worksheet in One Go. All Problems are also JEE
Relevant.
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Solutions

Problem 1 Solution :

Number of ways of selecting Chinese food items = 7

Number of ways of selecting Indian food items = 10

Here a person may choose any one food items, either an Indian or a Chinese

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food. So, we have to use "Addition" to find the total number of ways for selecting
the food item.

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Total number of selecting Indian or a Chinese food

= 10 + 7 = 17 ways

Problem 2 Solution :
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According to the given question, a baby wants to buy both toy car and toy train.
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So we have to use the binary operation "Multiplication" to find the total number of
ways.

Types of car available in the shop = 3

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Types of car available in the shop = 2

Total number of ways of buying a car = 3 (2) = 6

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Problem 3 Solution :

In order to form a two digit number, we have to select two numbers out of the
given 5 numbers.

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To fill up the first dash, we have 5 options.

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To fill up the second dash, we have 4 options.

Number of two digit numbers formed using the above numbers = 5 (4) = 20.

Problem 4 Solution :

1st person may choose 1 seat out of 10 seats

2nd person may choose 1 seat out of 9 seats

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3rd person may choose 1 seat out of 8 seats

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Total number of ways of selecting seat = 10 (9) (8)

= 720 ways

Problem 5 Solution :
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5 persons may sit in 5 seats.
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1st person may sit any one of the 5 seats

2nd person may sit any one of the 4 seats and so on.
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Hence the total number of ways = 5 ⋅ 4 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 2 ⋅ 1

= 120 ways
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Problem 6 Solution :

(i) 5+4=9
(ii) 5 × 4 = 20
(iii) 9 × 8 = 72
(iv) 9 (9 × 8) (9 × 8 × 7) = 326592

Problem 7 Solution : 15 (10-(-3) + 1)

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Problem 8:

Solution : 9x9x9 = 729

Problem 9:

Solution : 6 x 2 + 3 x 5 + 1 x 10 = 37 (Very good score!!)

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