Practice question for PnC

1. How many words can be formed by using all the letters of the word DAUGHTER so that vowels always come together & vowels are never together? 2. In how many ways can a cricket eleven be chosen out of a batch of 15 players. 3. In how many a committee of 5 members can be selected from 6 men and 5 ladies consisting of 3 men and 2 ladies 4. How many 4-letter word with or without meaning can be formed out of the letters of the word LOGARITHMS if repetition of letters is not allowed 5. In how many ways can the letter of word LEADER be arranged? 6. In how many different ways can the letters of the word CORPORATION be arranged so that the vowels always come together? 7. From a group of 7 men and 6 women, five persons are to be selected to form a committee so that at least 3 men are there on the committee. In how many ways can it be done? 8. How many arrangements can be made out of the letters of the word MATHEMATICS be arranged so that the vowels always come together 9. In how many different ways can the letter of the word DETAIL be arranged in such a way that the vowels occupy only the odd positions 10. How many 3 digit numbers can be formed from the digits 2,3,5,6,7 and 9 which are divisible by 5 and none of the digits is repeated? 11. In how many ways can 21 books on English and 19 books on Hindi be placed in a row on a self so that two books on Hindi may not be together? 12. Out of 7 constants and 4 vowels how many words of 3 consonants and 2 vowels can be formed? 13. A college has 10 basketball players. A 5-member team and a captain will be selected out of these 10 players. How many different selections can be made? 14. Badri has 9 pairs of dark Blue socks and 9 pairs of Black socks. He keeps them all in a same bag. If he picks out three socks at random what is the probability he will get a matching pair? 15. How many words of 4 consonants and 3 vowels can be made from 12 consonants and 4 vowels, if all the letters are different? 16. If the letters of the word CHASM are rearranged to form 5 letter words such that none of the word repeat and the results arranged in ascending order as in a dictionary what is the rank of the word CHASM? 17. How many four letter distinct initials can be formed using the alphabets of English language such that the last of the four words is always a consonant? 18. When four fair dice are rolled simultaneously, in how many outcomes will at least one of the dice show 3? 19. In how many ways can the letters of the word EDUCATION be rearranged so that the relative position of the vowels and consonants remain the same as in the word EDUCATION? 20. How many ways can 10 letters be posted in 5 post boxes, if each of the post boxes can take more than 10 letters? 21. A team of 8 students goes on an excursion, in two cars, of which one can seat 5 and the other only 4. In how many ways can they travel? 22. How many ways can 4 prizes be given away to 3 boys, if each boy is eligible for all the prizes? 23. There are 12 yes or no questions. How many ways can these be answered? 24. How many words can be formed by re-arranging the letters of the word ASCENT such that A and T occupy the first and last position respectively? 25. Four dice are rolled simultaneously. What is the number of possible outcomes in which at least one of the die shows 6? 26. How many alphabets need to be there in a language if one were to make 1 million distinct 3 digit initials using the alphabets of the language? 27. In how many ways can the letters of the word MANAGEMENT be rearranged so that the two As do not appear together? 28. There are 5 Rock songs, 6 Carnatic songs and 3 Indi pop songs. How many different albums can be formed using the above repertoire if the albums should contain at least 1 Rock song and 1 Carnatic song? 29. What is the value of 1*1! + 2*2! + 3!*3! + ......... n*n!, where n! means n factorial or n(n-1)(n-2)...1 30. How many times will the digit '7' be written when listing the integers from 1 to 1000?

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A 3 digit number is formed using the digits 2,3 and 4 without repeating any one of them what is the sum of all such possible numbers ? 32. Atul has 9 friends; 4 males and 5 females. In how many ways can he invite them, if he wants to have exactly 3 females in the invites? 33. How many numbers can be formed from 2,3,4,5,6 (without repetition), when the digit at tens place must be greater than that in the hundreds place ? 34. A polygon has 35 diagonals find the number of sides of the polygon. 35. There are 10 points in a plane, no three of which are in the same straight line, excepting four points, which are collinear. Find the number of triangles that can be formed with vertices as these points. 36. How many 9 digit numbers can be formed out of the number 217943627 so that the order of the even digits does not change? 37. If there are 10 people in a room and they would make handshakes with each one in the room, how many unique handshakes would be made? 38. If you have 5 pants and 8 shirts, how many ways can you wear them? 39. In a restaurant, there are 3 choices of soup, 5 choices of entrees, and 2 choices of desert. How many ways can you order them if each order consists of one soup, one entree, and one desert? 40. In how many ways can you arrange PAJERO so that the vowels occupy alternate positions? 41. How many numbers greater than a million can be formed with the digits 4, 5, 5, 0, 4, 5, 3? 42. A person writes letters to six friends and addresses the corresponding envelopes. In how many ways can the letters be placed in the envelopes so that at least two of them are in wrong envelopes? 43. Find the total number of numbers divisible by 2 which can be formed with the six digits 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7(with no digit repeated)? 44. How many 4 letter words with or without meaning can be formed out of the letters of the word LOGARITHMS, if repetition of letters is not allowed? 45. In how many ways can the letters of the word MACHINE be arranged so that the vowels may occupy only odd positions? 46. The number of positive integers greater than 6000 and less than 7000 which are divisible by 5, with no digit repeated is. 47. In a symposium, four speakers an economist, a politician, a union leader and a social worker, are to speak one after another. How many schedules showing the order in which these persons speak will have the economist speaking always after the politician? 48. There are 12 points out of which 7 points are marked on the straight line. How many triangles is it possible to form? 49. How many different Barbies can I make if I can choose from 4 different skin colours, 3 different eye colours, 4 different hairstyles and 6 different hair colors? 50. In a group of 6 boys and 4 girls, four children are to be selected. In how many different ways can they be selected such that at least one boy should be there? 51. A polygon has 44 diagonals. Find the number of sides 52. The sum of all the numbers which can be formed by using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 all at a time (no digit is being repeated) is 53. In how many ways can 21 books on English and 19 books on Hindi be placed in a row on a shelf so that two books on Hindi may not be together? 54. A box contains 2 white balls, 3 black balls and 4 red balls. In how many ways can 3 balls be drawn from the box, if atleast one black ball is to be included in the draw? 55. A committee of seven is to be formed from 9 boys and 5 girls. In how many ways can this be done, when a committee contains at least three girls? 56. There are 6 English, 4 Sanskrit and 5 Hindi books. In how many ways can they be arranged on a shelf so as to keep all the books of the same language together? 57. A straight line has 7 points marked on it. Another straight line has 5 points marked on it. Making use of all these points available, how many triangles is it possible to form? 58. How many numbers are there between 100 and 1000 such that at least one of their digits is 6? 59. Three men, two women and four children are to be seated on 9 chairs in such a way that all the men are together, all women are together and all children are together. In how many ways can this be done? 60. Three persons enter a railway carriage, where there are 5 vacant seats. In how many ways can they seat themselves? 61. What is the number of ways to assign the numbers 1 to 15 to 25 squares of 5 by 5 grid having 10 squares empty?

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In how many ways can 4 Boys and 4 Girls be seated so that no two boys may be together? Five fish are to be placed among 3 available fish tanks. In how many ways can this be done?