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Olympiad Workshop IOQM 2023

Combinatorics
1. The number of ways a team of 6 horses be
selected out of a stud of 16, so that there shall
always be three out of A B C A 'B' C, but never
k
AA'. BB' or CC' together is k, then   where
 12 
[.] is GIF.
2. There were two women participating in a chess
tournament. Every participant played two games
with the other participant played two games with
the other participates. The number of games that
the men played among themselves found to
exceed by 66 number of games that the men
played with the women. The number of
participants is
3. The number of ways of choosing a committee of
two women and three men from five women and
six men, if Mr. A refuses to serve on the
committee if Mr. B is a member and Mr. B can
only serve, if Miss C is the member of the
committee is 4m, then m equals
4. Number of squares that can be formed in 8 × 8
chessboard, so that each square is surrounded by
four squares of same dimension-
DPP-03
8. The number of rectangles that can be obtained by
joining four of the twelve vertices of a 12-sided
regular polygon is:
9. There are 10 girls and 8 boys in a classroom
including Mr. Ravi, Ms. Rani and Ms. Radha. A
list of speakers consisting of 8 girls and 6 boys
has to be prepared. Mr. Ravi refuses to speak if
Ms. Rani is speaker. Ms. Rani refuses to speak if
Ms. Radha is a speaker. The number of ways the
list can be prepared is a 3 digit number n1 n2 n3,
then n 3 + n 2 − n1 =
10. The number of numbers between 1 and 1010
which contain the digit 1 is a10 – b10 –1, then a–b
equals
11. Let a person has to go from A to D moving
along horizontal and vertical grids using shortest
path (as shown in figure).
D
M
N

5. Total number of divisors of n = 35.57.79 that are

of the form 4 + 1,   0 is 8k, then k equals
A

6. If x, y, z are three natural numbers in A.P. such

Then the number of paths in which he doesn't
that x + y + z = 30 then the possible number of
ordered triplet (x, y, z) is cross point N is equal to

7. There are 10 stations on a circular route. A train
has to stop at 3 stations such that no two stations
are consecutive on the route. The number of such
selections must be
12. The sequence of all positive palindromes are
written in ascending order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
11, 22, ….. Then rank of 2140412 is a four digit
number n1 n2 n3 n4 then n1 + n 2 + n 3 − n 4 equals
 Answer Key
1. (80) 7. (50)
2. (13) 8. (15)
3. (31) 9. (5)
4. (45) 10. (1)
5. (30) 11. (36)
6. (19) 12. (2)

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