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Permutations and Combinations

JEE Main 2024 (Online) 8th April Evening ShiftMCQMedium📈 Topic in 34% papers+4−1
Ques. 1JEE Main 2024, 8 April (Evening Shift)

The number of ways five alphabets can be chosen from the alphabets of the word MATHEMATICS, where the chosen alphabets are not necessarily distinct, is equal to:

  1. 179
  2. 177
  3. 175
  4. 181

Answer

(1) 179

Solution

MATHEMATICS: M, A, T twice each; H, E, I, C, S once ⇒ 8 different letters, 3 of them available twice

(i) All 5 different: 8C5 = 56

(ii) 1 alike pair + 3 different: 3C1 7C3 = 3 35 = 105

(iii) 2 alike pairs + 1 different: 3C2 6C1 = 3 6 = 18

∴ Total = 56 + 105 + 18 = 179

Answer: (1)

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Ques. 2JEE Main 2024, 6 April (Morning Shift)

The number of triangles whose vertices are at the vertices of a regular octagon but none of whose sides is a side of the octagon is

  1. 56
  2. 16
  3. 24
  4. 48
Ques. 3JEE Main 2024, 6 April (Evening Shift)

If all the words with or without meaning made using all the letters of the word "NAGPUR" are arranged as in a dictionary, then the word at 315th position in this arrangement is :

  1. NRAPUG
  2. NRAGUP
  3. NRAPGU
  4. NRAGPU
Ques. 4JEE Main 2024, 6 April (Evening Shift)

Let 0 r n. If n+1Cr+1 : nCr : n-1Cr-1 = 55 : 35 : 21, then 2n + 5r is equal to :

  1. 62
  2. 60
  3. 55
  4. 50
Ques. 5JEE Main 2024, 5 April (Morning Shift)

The number of ways of getting a sum 16 on throwing a dice four times is .

Ques. 6JEE Main 2024, 5 April (Evening Shift)

Let the set S = \2, 4, 8, 16, , 512\ be partitioned into 3 sets A, B, C with equal number of elements such that A B C = S and A B = B C = A C = . The maximum number of such possible partitions of S is equal to:

  1. 1640
  2. 1520
  3. 1710
  4. 1680
Ques. 7JEE Main 2024, 5 April (Evening Shift)

60 words can be made using all the letters of the word BHBJO, with or without meaning. If these words are written as in a dictionary, then the 50th word is:

  1. OBBJH
  2. HBBJO
  3. OBBHJ
  4. JBBOH
Ques. 8JEE Main 2024, 4 April (Morning Shift)

There are 5 points P1, P2, P3, P4, P5 on the side AB, excluding A and B, of a triangle ABC. Similarly there are 6 points P6, P7, , P11 on the side BC and 7 points P12, P13, , P18 on the side CA of the triangle. The number of triangles, that can be formed using the points P1, P2, , P18 as vertices, is:

  1. 751
  2. 776
  3. 796
  4. 771
Ques. 9JEE Main 2024, 4 April (Evening Shift)

There are 4 men and 5 women in Group A, and 5 men and 4 women in Group B. If 4 persons are selected from each group, then the number of ways of selecting 4 men and 4 women is .

Ques. 10JEE Main 2024, 1 February (Morning Shift)

If n is the number of ways five different employees can sit into four indistinguishable offices where any office may have any number of persons including zero, then n is equal to :

  1. 47
  2. 53
  3. 51
  4. 43
Ques. 11JEE Main 2024, 1 February (Morning Shift)

The number of elements in the set S=\(x, y, z): x, y, z , x+2y+3z=42, x, y, z 0\ equals .

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