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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

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

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

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The value of

{}^{16}C_{9} + {}^{16}C_{10} - {}^{16}C_{6} - {}^{16}C_{7}

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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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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 :

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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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The number of selection of

n

objects from

2 n

objects of which

n

are identical and the rest are different, is

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In order to get through in an examination of nine papers, a candidate has to pass in more papers than the number of papers in which he fails. The number of ways in which he can fail, in this examination 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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Total number of

6

-digit numbers in which only and all the five digits

1, 3, 5, 7

and

9

appears, 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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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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The number of diagonals of a polygon with

15

sides 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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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

(1 + x)^{n} = C_{0} + C_{1} x + C_{2} x^{2} + \dots + C_{n} x^{n},

where

C_{r} = {}^{n}C_{r}

and

(C_{0} + C_{1}) (C_{1} + C_{2}) \dots (C_{n - 1} + C_{n}) = A C_{1} C_{2} \dots C_{n}

, then for

n = 5, A

is equal to

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In how many ways a team of $5$ members can be chosen from $8$ members?

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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

The number of ways in which a committee can be formed of 5 members from 6 men and 4 women if the committee has at least one woman, is

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