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Permutation and combination questions

Permutation and Combination questions are an integral part of any aptitude test. The test includes these questions to assess a candidate's ability to recognize patterns and determine links between objects. To solve these questions, one must understand the different types of permutations - the number of combinations possible when arranging a set of objects in a specific order. To get comfortable with numerical aptitude questions, here are some of the most often-asked questions and their answers.

  1. The number of ways of selecting 15 teams from 15 men and 15 women, such that each team consists of a man and a woman is

Answer: Option B

Number of ways selecting 1st team from 15 men and 15 women = 15C1×15C1=152
2nd team = 14C1×14C1=142 and so on
so, total number of ways = 12+22+......+152=15×16×316=1240

  1. Let A and B be two sets containing four and two elements respectively. Then the number of subsets of the sets A×B, each having at least three elements is

Answer: Option C

we have n(A)=4 and n(B)=2
Thus the number of elements in A×B is 8
Number of subsets having at least 3 elements
=8C3+8C4+8C5+8C6+8C7+8C8
= (8C0+8C1+8C2+.....+8C8)(8C0+8C1+8C2)
=28(1+8+28)=25637=219

  1. In how many different ways can the letters of the word OPERATE be arranged?

Answer: Option A

The given words contains 8 letters out of which U is taken 2 times and all other letters are different.

∴ Required number of ways =8!2!=8×7×6×5×4×3×2×12

=20160

  1. The number of points having both the coordinates as integers, that lie in the interior of the triangle with vertices (0,0),(0,41),(41,0) is

Answer: Option B

We count the number of points on line x=n,1n<40, that lie in the interior of the triangle .
At line x=40 we have 1 point
x=39 we have 2 points

.......

x=n, we have (40n) points
The total number of points = 1+2+3+......+39=12×39×40=39×20=780

  1. The sum 10r=1(r2+1)×(r!) is equal to

Answer: Option B

we have, Tr=(r2+1+rr)(r!)=(r2+r)(r!)(r1)(r!)
Tr=r(r+1)!(r1)r!
T1=1(2!)0
T2=2(3!)1(2!)
T3=3(4!)2(3!)
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T10=10(11!)9(10!)
10r=1(r2+1)×(r!)=10(11!)