Combinations
Combinations: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Combination, Combinatorics Problems on Polygon, 'n' Alike and 'p' Distinct & Understanding of nCr and its Existence etc.
Important Questions on Combinations


An examination paper consists of questions divided into parts &. Part- contains questions & Part- contains questions. A candidate is required to attempt questions selecting at least from each part. In how many maximum ways can the candidate select the questions?

The total number of paths from the origin to the point in the cartesian plane which never pass through , where paths consisting only of steps going unit North or unit East, is

Let denote the number of triangles which can be formed using the vertices of a regular polygon of sides. If , then equals

A student is allowed to select at most books from collection of books. If the total number of ways in which he can select at least one books is , find the value of

The number of positive divisors of are

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

if the coefficients of three consecutive terms in the expansion of are the ratio then the coefficient of the fourth term is

Let the number of elements in sets and be five and two respectively. Then the number of subsets of each having at least and at most elements is


If we have a ATM pin of digit.The sum of first two digit is equal to the sum of last two digits and the greatest integer used is , then number of trials used to get the pin if all digits are different

If the coefficient of three consecutive terms in the expansion of are in the ratio , then the coefficient of the forth term of the expansion is:

Find all the letter words with vowels and consonants from the word UNIVERSE.


There are courses available in which courses are of languages. Find the number of ways to select courses so, that atmost languages courses are there.

Number of ways in which different toys can be distributed among two brothers in ratio is

Out of books, in how many ways can a set of one or more books be chosen

and integers such that , then is

