PERMUTATIONS & COMBINATIONS (CCA – 3)

1. In how many ways a team of 11 can be formed from 17 players when

(a) a particular player is never selected (b) a particular player is always selected

2. A bag contains 5 black and 6 red balls. Determine the number of ways in which 2 black and 3 red balls
can be selected.

3. Find the number of ways of selecting 9 balls from 6 red balls, 5 white balls and 5 blue balls, if each
selection consists of 3 balls of each color.

4. In how many ways can a team of 3 boys and 3 girls be selected from 5 boys and 4 girls.

5. A committee of 12 is to be formed from 9 girls and 8 boys. In how many ways this can be done if
(a) Exactly 5girls have to be included (b) at least 8 girls have to be included

6. Out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words of 3 consonants and 2 vowels can be formed?

7. How many words, with or without meaning, each of 3 vowels and 2 consonants can be formed from the
letters of the word INVOLUTE

8. How many chords can be drawn through 21 points on a circle.

9. Out of 10 points in a plane no 3 of them are in same straight line except 4 points which are collinear.
How many
(a) Straight lines (b) Trianges
can be formed by joining them.

10. Find number of diagonals in a polygen of n sides.

11. If m parallel lines in a plane are intersected by a family of n parallel lines, find number of parallelograms
formed.

12. In how many ways 4 squares can be chosen on a chess board such that all the squance lies in a diagonal
line.

13. In how many ways can 5 boys and 3 girls be seated in a row so that no two girls are together.

14. In a plane there are 2 family lines y =x + r , y =− x + r ; r ∈ {0,1, 2,3, 4} , find number of squares of
diagonal length 2 formed by this lines.

15. Triplet (x, y, z) is selected from the set {1, 2, 3, ……., n) such that x < y < z. Find total number of such
triplets.

16. Find all 6 digits numbers a1a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 (all digits distinct) where a1 > a2 > a3 > a4 < a5 < a6 .

17. In how many ways 4 letters can be selected from the letters of the word
(a) MATHEMATICS (b) PROPORTION

18. How many words can be formed by taking 4 letters at a time out of the letters of the word
(a) INEFFECTIVE (b) MISSISSIPPI

19. If n straight lines are drawn in a plane no two which are parallel and no three of them meet at a point
then find the maximum number of fresh lines abtained by joining their point of intersections.

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