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Every man who has lived on earth has made a certain number of handshakes. Then the number of men who have made an odd number of handshakes is

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A debate club consists of

6

girls and

4

boys. A team of

4

members is to be selected from this club including the selection of a captain (from among these

4

members) for the team. If the team has to include at most one boy, then the number of ways of selecting the team is

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{{}^{n}C}_{r - 1} = 36, {{}^{n}C}_{r} = 84

and

{{}^{n}C}_{r + 1} = 126

,

then

n =

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A password is set with

3

distinct letters from the word LOGARITHMS. How many such passwords can be formed?

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Two women and some men participated in a chess tournament in which every participant played two games with each of the other participants. If the number of games that the men played between them-selves exceeds the number of games that the men played with the women by

66

, then the number of men who participated in the tournament lies in the interval

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Let

A = \{x_{1}, x_{2}, \dots, x_{7}\} and B = \{y_{1}, y_{2}, y_{3}\}

be two sets containing seven and three distinct elements respectively. Then the total number of functions

f : A \to B

that are onto, if there exist exactly three elements

x

A

such that

f (x) = y_{2},

is equal to:

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In a tournament with five teams, each team plays against every other team exactly once. Each game is won by one of the playing teams and the winning team scores one point, while the losing team scores zero. Which of the following is NOT necessarily true?

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The number of diagonals of a polygon with

15

sides is

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A committee of

11

member is to be formed from

8

males and

5

females. If

m

is the number of ways the committee is formed with at least

6

males and

n

is the number of ways the committee is formed with at least

3

females, then

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If in a regular polygon the number of diagonals is

54

, then the number of sides of this polygon is:

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The number of noncongruent integer-sided triangles whose sides belong to the set

{10, 11, 12, . . . . . ., 22}

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\frac{^{n + 2} C_{6}}{^{n - 2} P_{2}} = 11

, then

n

satisfies the equation:

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Let

T_{n}

be the number of all possible triangles formed by joining vertices of an

n

-sided regular polygon. If

T_{n + 1} - T_{n} = 10

, then the value of

n

is :

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The value of

\sum_{r = 1}^{15} r^{2} (\frac{^{15} C_{r}}{^{15} C_{r - 1}})

is equal to:

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The least value of a natural number

n

such that

(\frac{n - 1}{5}) + (\frac{n - 1}{6}) < (\frac{n}{7})

, where

(\frac{n}{r}) = \frac{n!}{(n - r)! r!}

, is

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Let

S = \{1,2, 3, \dots . 9\}

. For

k = 1,2, \dots 5,

let

N_{k}

be the number of subsets of

S

, each containing five elements out of which exactly

k

are odd. Then

N_{1} + N_{2} + N_{3} + N_{4} + N_{5} =

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The Number of ways of choosing

10

objects out of

31

objects of which

10

are identical and the remaining

21

are distinct, is:

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Suppose that

20

pillars of the same height have been erected along the boundary of circular stadium. If the top of each pillar has been connected by beams with the top of all its non-adjacent pillars, then the total number of beams is:

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A man

X

has

7

friends,

4

of them are ladies and

3

are men. His wife

Y

also has

7

friends,

3

of them are ladies and

4

are men. Assume

X

and

Y

have no common friends. Then the total number of ways in which

X

and

Y

together can throw a party inviting

3

ladies and

3

men, so that

3

friends of each of

X

and

Y

are in this party is:

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The number of ways of selecting

15

teams from

15

men and

15

women, such that each team consists of a man and a woman is

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Consider three boxes, each containing

10

balls labelled

1, 2, \dots ., 10

. Suppose one ball is randomly drawn from each of the boxes. Denote by

n_{i}

, the label of the ball drawn from the

i^{t h}

box,

(i = 1, 2, 3)

. Then, the number of ways in which the balls can be chosen such that

n_{1} < n_{2} < n_{3}

is :

Every man who has lived on earth has made a certain number of handshakes. Then the number of men who have made an odd number of handshakes is

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