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Permutations and Combinations
by Mehak Sood - Thursday, 1 October 2009, 10:55 AM
 
1) Sum of all three digit numbers (no digit being zero) having the property that all the digits are perfect squares is
a)3108 b)6216 c) 13986 d)none of these

2)In a certain test there are are n questions. In this test 2k students gave wrong answers to atleast (n-k) questions where k=0,1,2,3,4,.......n.If the total number of wrong answers is 4095,then the value of n is
a)11 b)12 c)13 d)15

3) An 8 digit number divisible by 9 is to be formed by using 8 digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 without replacement . The number of ways in whivh this can be done is
a)9! b)2(7!) c)36(7!) d)4(7!)

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Re: Permutations and Combinations
by Srinath Murthy - Friday, 22 January 2010, 12:52 PM
 

No.-1

Possible digits: 1, 4, 9

Assumption: Repetition allowed

Number of numbers for which 1 is at unit place: 3 x 3 = 9

Number of numbers for which 4 is at unit place: 3 x 3 = 9

Number of numbers for which 9 is at unit place: 3 x 3 = 9

Sum of numbers at unit place: 9x1+9x4+9x9=126

Similarly, sum of numbers at 10th place: 126

Similarly, sum of numbers at 100th place: 126

Total: 1x126+10x126+100x126

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Re: Permutations and Combinations
by Mehak Sood - Friday, 22 January 2010, 04:58 PM
 
Thank you!!!
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Re: Permutations and Combinations
by Srinath Murthy - Sunday, 24 January 2010, 10:10 PM
 

Welcome, it is easier to help if you attach your work. It saves time too. When questions are from world standard texts then also it helps as the question is likely to be well researched and error margin in it is miniscule.

No.-2

2k---------> n-k questions,

2n-k ---------> n-(n-k)=k questions at least and 2n-(k+1) ------------->n-n+(k+1)=k+1 questions at least

Exactly k questions wrong, 2n-k - 2n-k-1 students

Total wrong answers = Sigma k(2n-k - 2n-k-1) where signma is to be taken from k=0 to k=n-1 which comes out to be 2n-1.

2n-1=4095 and n can be known.

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Re: Permutations and Combinations
by Srinath Murthy - Monday, 8 March 2010, 10:46 PM
 

No.-3

The total should be divisible by 9.

  • 0,2,3,4,5,6,7,9 (36) -> 8!-7!
  • 0,1,3,4,5,6,8,9 (36) -> 8!-7!
  • 0,1,2,4,5,7,8,9 (36) -> 8!-7!
  • 0,1,2,3,6,7,8,9 (36) -> 8!-7!
  • 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (36) -> 8!

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