Chapter 7

Permutations and Combinations

Assignment

Topic: Factorial

Q1. Find the L.C.M. of 4! , 5! 𝑎𝑛𝑑 6!

1 1 𝑥
Q2. If + 10! = 11! find 𝑥
9!
1 1 𝑥
Q3. If + 5! = 6! find 𝑥
4!
1 1 𝑥
Q4. If + 9! = 10! find 𝑥
8!
1 1 𝑥
Q5. If + 7! = 8! find 𝑥
6!
Q6. Prove that 𝑛! (𝑛 + 2) = 𝑛! + (𝑛 + 1)!
Q7. If (𝑛 + 2)! = 60[(𝑛 − 1)!], 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑛.
Q8. If (𝑛 + 1)! = 90[(𝑛 − 1)!], 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑛.

Topic :Permuatations

Q1. In how many ways 5 rings of different types can be worn in 4 fingures?
Q2. A room has 6 doors.In how many ways can a man enter the room trough one door and
come out through a different door ?
Q3. How many numbers lyng between 100 and 1000 can be formed with the digits
1,2,3,4,5, if the repetition of digits is not allowed?
Q4. How many four digits numbers are there with distinct digits?
Q5. How many four 4-letter words,with or without meaning ,can be formed out of the
letters of the word ,’LOGARITHMS’,if the repetition of letters is not allowed?
Q6. How many words with or without meaning can be formed by using all the letters of
the word ‘DELHI’,using each letter exactly once?
Q7. How many words with or without meaning,can be formed by using the letters of the
word ‘TRIANGLE’?
Q8. Find the number of ways in which 5 boys and 5 girls be seated in a row so that
I. No two girls may sit together
II. All girls sit together and all the boys sit together
III. All the girls are never together.
Q9. How many even numbers are there with three digits such that if 5 is one of the digits
,then 7 is the next digit?
Q10. How many arrangements can be made with the letters of the word
‘MATHEMATICS’? In how many of them vowels are together?
Q11. How many numbers greater than 10 lacs be formed from 2,3,0,3,4,2,3?
Q12. Find the number of words from the letters of the word ‘BHARAT’ in which B and H
will never come together?

Topic : Combinations

Q1. A polygon has 44 diagonals. Find the number of its sides?

Q2. How many diagonals are there in a polygon with n sides?
Q3. How many words with or without meaning can be formed using all the letters of the
word ‘EQUATION’ at a time so that vowels and consonants occur together ?
Q4. How many words can be formed by taking by taking 4 letters at a time out of the
letters of the words ‘MATHEMATICS’?
Q5. How many four-letter words can be formed using the letter of the word
‘INEFFECTIVE’?
Q6. Find the number of triangles that are formed by choosing the vertices from a set of 12
points,seven of which lie on the same line.
Q7. Find the number of 5-digits telephone numbers having at least one of their digits
repeated?
Q8. In how many ways can 5 girls and 3 boys can be seated in a row so that no two boys
are together?