Permutations and Combinations · Question 1

The number of 4-letter words, with or without meaning, each consisting of two vowels and two consonants that can be formed from the letters of the word INCONSEQUENTIAL, without repeating any letter, is :

1. 2670
2. 2840
3. 2920
4. 3600

A building has ground floor and 10 more floors. Nine persons enter in a lift at the ground floor. The lift goes up to the 10th floor. The number of ways, in which any 4 persons exit at a floor and the remaining 5 persons exit at a different floor, if the lift does not stop at the first and the second floors, is equal to :

1. 2184
2. 3064
3. 7056
4. 11340

Two players A and B play a series of games of badminton. The player, who wins 5 games first, wins the series. Assuming that no game ends in a draw, the number of ways, in which player A wins the series is .

A box contains 5 blue, 6 yellow and 4 red balls. The number of ways, of drawing 8 balls containing at least two balls of each colour, is :

1. 4100
2. 4140
3. 4230
4. 4290

The number of ways, of forming a queue of 4 boys and 3 girls such that all the girls are not together, is:

1. 5040
2. 3050
3. 3410
4. 4320

Let A=\(a, b, c) : a, b, c are non-negative integers and a+b+2c=22\. Then n(A) is equal to :

1. 121
2. 124
3. 144
4. 169

The number of seven-digit numbers, that can be formed by using the digits 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 such that each digit is used at least once, is :

1. 15400
2. 17800
3. 16800
4. 29400

Let pn denote the total number of triangles formed by joining the vertices of an n-side regular polygon. If pn+1-pn=66, then the sum of all distinct prime divisors of n is :

1. 7
2. 8
3. 5
4. 6

Let S = \1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9\. Let x be the number of 9-digit numbers formed using the digits of the set S such that only one digit is repeated and it is repeated exactly twice. Let y be the number of 9-digit numbers formed using the digits of the set S such that only two digits are repeated and each of these is repeated exactly twice. Then,

1. 56x = 9y
2. 21x = 4y
3. 45x = 7y
4. 29x = 5y

Three persons enter in a lift at the ground floor. The lift will go up to 10th floor. The number of ways, in which the three persons can exit the lift at three different floors, if the lift does not stop at first, second and third floors, is equal to .