TEST- MATHEMATICS @ PERMUTATION & COMBINATION

Q.1 Two boys and six girls are officers of a Math club. When the photographer takes a picture for the
school yearbook, she asks the eight officers of the club and one faculty sponsor to sit in a row with the
faculty sponsor in the middle and the two boys not next to one another. Number of different seating
arrangements, are
(A) 31680 (B) 30960 (C) 20240 (D) 33840

Q.2 Two tour guides are leading 6 tourist. The guides decide to split up. Each tourist must choose one of
the guides, but with the stipulation that each guide must take at least one tourist. Number of possiible
different groupings of guides and tourist is
(A) 56 (B) 82 (C) 60 (D) 62

Q.3 P is the product of all the prime numbers between 1 to 100. Then the number of Zeroes at the end of
P are:
(A) 1 (B) 24 (C) 0 (D) none of these
Q.4 A three digit number abc is such that
(i) its hundreds digit is equal to the sum of the other two digits, and
(ii) b(c + 1) = 52 – 4a Number of such numbers are
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5
Q.5 The total number of combinations 6 at a time which can be formed from 6 alike white, 6 alike blue,
6 alike green and 6 alike red balls is
(1) 90 (2) 84 (3) 78 (4) none

Q.6 The number of ways in which 100 persons may be seated at 2 round tables T 1 and T2 , 50 persons
being seated at each is
99 ! 100 ! 100 ! 100C
(A) (B) (C) (D) 50
25 50 2

Q.7 In an eleven storey building 9 people enter a lift cabin . It is known that they will leave the lift in groups
of 2, 3 and 4 at different residential storeys . Number of ways in which they can get down is :
12 ! 10 ! 10 !
(A) (B) (C) (D) none
2 ! 3 ! . 4 !
2
4 4!

Q.8 A multiple choice exam has 20 questions, and each question has 5 possible answers. The same
5 answers for each question will appear on each examination paper, but they can appear in any order.
The questions will appear in the same order on every examination paper. Number of different examination
papers that can be printed are
20!
(A) 520 (B) P(20, 5) (C) (D) (5!)20
5!
Q.9 Let m denote the number of four digit numbers such that the left most digit is odd, the second digit from
left is even and all four digits are different and n denotes the number of four digit numbers such that the
left most digit is even, an odd second digit from left and all four different digits. If m = nk then the value
of k equals
6 4 5 3
(A) (B) (C) (D)
5 3 4 2
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Q.10 In a library there are m different books of mathematics and n different books of natural science. They
can be placed on a shelf in 1209600 ways so that books of the same subject are not seperated. If
m > n, then m =
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9

Q.11 The number of ways in which 4 boys and 4 girls can stand in a circle so that each boy and each girl is
one after the other is :
(1) 3 ! · 4 ! (2) 4 ! · 4 ! (3) 8 ! (4) 7 !

Q.12 Number of ways in which 4 married couples can be seated round a table such that men and women are
alternate and not all women adjacent to her husband, is
(A) 144 (B) 132 (C) 120 (D) 36

Q.13 The number of different words of three letters which can be formed from the word "PROPOSAL", if
a vowel is always in the middle are
(A) 52 (B) 53 (C) 63 (D) 54

Q.14 2011 is an example of a 4 digit number, exactly 2 digits of which are identical and adjacent. Number
of 4 digit numbers with the same property including 2011, is
(A) 1944 (B) 2439 (C) 2521 (D) 2440

Q.15 All possible 120 permutations of WDSMC are arranged in dictionary order, as if each were an
ordinary five-letter word. The last letter of the 86th word in the list, is
(A) W (B) D (C) M (D) C

Q.16 Consider 8 vertices of a regular octagon and its centre. If T denotes the number of triangles and S
denotes the number of straight lines that can be formed with these 9 points then T – S has the value
equal to
(A) 56 (B) 52 (C) 48 (D) 44
Q.17 Number of ways in which 5 boys and 5 girls can be seated alternatively on a round table if a particular
boys and a particular girl are never adjacent to each other in any arrangement, is
(A) 288 (B) 552 (C) 1584 (D) 1728
Q.18 There are 3 men and 7 women taking a dance class. Number of different ways in which each man be
paired with a woman partner, and the four remaining women be paired into two pairs each of two, is
(A) 105 (B) 315 (C) 630 (D) 450

Q.19 Consider N = 711 1329 . The number of positive integer divisors of N2 which are less than N
but do not divide N is equal to
(A) 319 (B) 349 (C) 339 (D) 329
Q.20 Four students from University U1, one of them is Mr. A, and five students from University U2, one of
them is Mr. B, are going to see an Inter University Cricket tournament. However, they found, that only
5 ticket remaining, so 4 of them must go back. Suppose that atleast one student from each University
must go to see the game, and at least one of Mr. A and Mr. B must go to see the game. Number of
ways of selecting 5 students satisfying the above constraint, is equal to
(A) 126 (B) 140 (C) 104 (D) none

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Q.21 Two different packs each containing 52 playing cards are shuffled together . The number of ways in
which a man can be dealt 26 cards so that he does not get two cards of the same suit and same
denomination is :
(A) 226  1 (B) 252  1 (C) 52C26 . 226 (D) none

Q.22 Number of selections of 6 different letters can be made from the words 'NISHIT' and 'RAHUL'
so that each selection consists of 3 letters from each word, is
(1) 64 (2) 84 (3) 100 (4) 106
Q.23 Two variants of a test paper are distributed among 12 students . Number of ways of seating of the
students in two rows so that the students sitting side by side do not have identical papers and those
sitting in the same column have the same paper is :
12! (12)!
(A) 6!6! (B) 5 (C) (6!)2 · 2 (D) (6!)2 · 22
2 .6!

Q.24 Sixteen players S1, S2, S3,........ , S16 play in a tournament. Number of ways in which they can be
grouped into eight pairs so that S1 and S2 are in different groups, is equal to
(14)! (15)! (14)! (14)!
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 7 (D)
2 ·6! 2 ·7! 2 · 6! 2 6 · 7!
Q.25 There are 10 points on a line and 11 points on another line, which are parallel to each other. Number
of triangles that can be drawn taking the vertices on any of the line, is
(A) 1050 (B) 2550 (C) 1045 (D) 150

Q.26 There are 3 straight lines, 4 circles and 5 parabolas in xy plane. Maximum number
of their intersection point, is
(A) 129 (B) 149 (C) 169 (D) 189

Q.27 A man is dealt a poker hand (consisting of 5 cards) from an ordinary pack of 52 playing cards . The
number of ways in which he can be dealt a "straight" (a straight is five consecutive values not of the
same suit, eg. {Ace , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5}, {2, 3, 4, 5, 6} .......................... and {10 , J , Q , K , Ace}) is
(A) 45  4 (B) 4 ! . 210 (C) 10 . 210 (D) 10200
Q.28 A man wants to buy 'm' mangoes in 'n' different varieties, mangoes of the same variety being identical
and they are available in abundance. Number of different ways he can plan his purchases, if he has to
buy atleast two mangoes of the same variety is
m  n 1
m - 2 nC m + n - 3C Pn 1  n Pm
(A) n-1 (B) m-1 (C) m+n–1Cm – nCm (D)
m!
Q.29 Rajdhani express going from Bombay to Delhi stops at 5 intermediate stations . 10 passengers enter
the train during the journey with ten different ticket of two classes . The number of different sets of
tickets they may have had is :
(A) 15C10 (B) 20C10 (C) 30C10 (D) none
132!
Q.30 Number of zeros at the end of the number N = 104 19is
2 5
(A) 6 (B) 13 (C) 26 (D) 47

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 ANSWERS
1 A
2 D
3 A
4 C
5 B
6 A
7 C
8 D
9 C
10 B
11 A
12 B
13 B
14 A
15 B
16 B
17 D
18 C
19 D
20 C
21 C
22 A
23 C
24 A
25 C
26 D
27 D
28 C
29 C
30 B

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