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Some couples participated in a mixed doubles badminton tournament. If the number of matches played, so that no couple played in a match, is 840, then the total numbers of persons, who participated in the tournament, is ________.

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Important Questions on Permutation and Combination

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There are m men and two women participating in a chess tournament. Each participant plays two games with every other participant. If the number of games played by the men between themselves exceeds the number of games played between the men and the women by 84, then the value of m is :
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If Cnr-1=36, Cnr=84 and Cnr+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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Consider three boxes, each containing 10 balls labelled 1, 2, ., 10. Suppose one ball is randomly drawn from each of the boxes. Denote by ni, the label of the ball drawn from the ith box, i=1, 2, 3. Then, the number of ways in which the balls can be chosen such that n1<n2<n3 is :
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Let A=x1,x2,,x7 and B=y1,y2,y3 be two sets containing seven and three distinct elements respectively. Then the total number of functions f:AB that are onto, if there exist exactly three elements x in A such that fx=y2, is equal to:
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The least value of a natural number n such that n-15+n-16<n7, where nr=n!n-r! r! , is
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The number of diagonals of a polygon with 15 sides is
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If n+2C6n-2P2=11, then n satisfies the equation:
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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} is
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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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Let Tn be the number of all possible triangles formed by joining vertices of an n-sided regular polygon. If Tn+1-Tn=10, then the value of n is :
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From 6 different novels and 3 different dictionaries, 4 novels and 1 dictionary are to be selected and arranged in a row on the shelf so that the dictionary is always in the middle. Then the number of such arrangement is
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In a group of 6 boys and 4 girls, a team consisting of four children is formed such that the team has atleast one boy. The number of ways of forming a team like this is
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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 S=1,2,3,.9. For k=1,2,5, let Nk be the number of subsets of S, each containing five elements out of which exactly k are odd. Then N1+N2+N3+N4+N5=
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The value of r=115r215Cr15Cr1 is equal to:
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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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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