Permutation, Combination and Probability
Q1. Evaluate: 30! / 28!
1) 120 2) 640 3)870 4)940 5) None
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Q2. Evaluate:
1) 120 2) 3840 3) 3003 4) 273 5) None
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Q3. How many words with or without meaning, can be formed by using all the letters of the word DELHI, using each letter exactly once?
1) 10 2) 25 3) 60 4) 120 5) None
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Q4. How many words with or without meaning, can be formed by using all the letters of the word GOOGLE, using each letter exactly once?
1) 100 2) 60 3) 180 4) 120 5) None
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Q5. How many words with or without meaning, can be formed by using all the letters of the word TWITTER, using each letter exactly once?
1) 840 2) 160 3) 180 4) 720 5) None
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Q6. In how many ways can the letters of the word COCOON be arranged?
1) 720 2) 120 3) 60 4) 180 5) None
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DIRECTIONS (Q7 - 10): How many different words can be formed from the letters of word UNITARY in the following questions:
Q7. The letter U always occupies the first place.
1) 840 2) 880 3) 120 4) 720 5) None
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Q8. All the vowels are always together
1) 720 2) 120 3) 60 4) 180 5) None
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Q9. All the consonants are not together.
1) 720 2) 840 3) 5040 4) 576 5) None
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Q10. How many words of 5 letters each can be formed each containing 3 consonants & 2 vowels?
1) 1720 2) 1440 3) 1060 4) 1080 5) None
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Q11. How many three digit numbers can be formed from the digits: 0,2,3,4,5,6,7 using each digit just once?
1) 210 2) 180 3) 240 4) 190 5) None
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Q12. 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?
1) 5 2) 10 3) 15 4) 20 5) None
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Q13. In how many ways can six persons sit in a circle?
1) 720 2) 60 3) 24 4) 120 5) None
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Q14. In how many ways can we make a necklace with six different coloured stones?
1) 720 2) 60 3) 24 4) 120 5) None
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DIRECTIONS (Q15 – 18): How many committees of 5 members each can be formed from 8 official & 4 non official members in following cases?
Q15. Each consisting of 3 official & 2 non official members
1) 720 2) 224 3) 324 4) 326 5) None
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Q16. Each contains at least two non official members
1) 456 2) 660 3) 524 4) 120 5) None
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Q17. A particular official member is never included
1) 120 2) 260 3) 462 4) 720 5) None
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Q18. A particular non official member is always included
1) 60 2) 330 3) 340 4) 320 5) None
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Q19. Two unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most one head?
1) 3/4 2) 1/4 3) 4/7 4) 3/5 5) None
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Q20. Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at least 2 heads?
1) ¼ 2) ½ 3) 1/3 4) 1/8 5) None
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Q21. Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two heads?
1) ¾ 2) ¼ 3) 3/8 4) 7/8 5) None
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Q22. A die is rolled. What is the probability of getting a prime number?
1) 7/18 2) 1/2 3) 4/6 4) 5/6 5) None
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Q23. In a simultaneous throw of a pair of dice, find the probability of getting a total more than 7?
1) 5/12 2) 6/13 3) 7/15 4) 6/19 5) None
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Q24. Two dice are thrown together. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the two faces is divisible by 4 or 6?
1) 7/18 2) 1/17 3) 4/15 4) 5/16 5) None
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Q25. What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of a dice?
1) 1/6 2) 1/8 3) 1/9 4) 1/12 5) None
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Q26. In a simultaneous throw of two dice, what is the probability of getting a total of 10 or 11?
1) ¼ 2) 1/6 3) 7/12 4) 5/36 5) None
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Q27. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting two numbers whose product is even?
1) ½ 2) ¾ 3) 3/8 4) 5/16 5) None
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Q28. Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:
1) 1/6 2) 5/12 3) ½ 4) 7/9 5) None
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Q29. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticked is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?
1) ½ 2) 2/5 3) 8/15 4) 9/20 5) None
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Q30. Tickets numbered 1 to 30 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 2 or 3?
1) ½ 2) 2/3 3) 2/5 4) 9/30 5) None
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Q31. One card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is either a red card or a king?
1) ½ 2) 6/13 3) 7/13 4) 27/52 5) None
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Q32. The probability that a card drawn from a pack of 52 cards will be a diamond or a king is:
1) 2/13 2) 4/13 3) 1/13 4) 1/52 5) None
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Q33. From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn together at random. What is the probability of both the cards being kings?
1) 1/15 2) 25/57 3) 35/256 4) 1/221 5) None
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Q34. A bag contains 4 white, 5 red and 6 blue balls. Three balls are drawn at random. The probability that all of them are red is:
1) 1/22 2) 3/22 3) 2/91 4) 2/77 5) None
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Q35. A bag contains 6 white and 4 red balls. Three balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that one ball is red and the other two are white?
1) ½ 2) 1/12 3) 3/10 4) 7/12 5) None
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Q36. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?
1) 10/21 2) 11/21 3) 2/7 4) 5/7 5) None
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Q37. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that not both of the balls drawn are blue?
1) 20/21 2) 11/21 3) 2/7 4) 5/7 5) None
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Q38. In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is probability that it is neither red nor green?
1) 2/3 2) ¾ 3) 7/19 4) 8/21 5) None
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Q39. A box contains 10 black and 10 white balls. The probability of drawing two balls of the same colour is:
1) 9/19 2) 9/38 3) 10/19 4) 5/19 5) None
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Q40. A man and his wife appear in an interview for two vacancies in the same post. The probability of husband’s selection is (1/7) and the probability of wife’s selection is (1/5). What is the probability that only one of them is selected?
1) 4/5 2) 2/7 3) 8/15 4) 4/7 5) None
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