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ALGEBRA 03 B. 10!5! D. 6!5! 15.

Everybody in a room shakes hand with everybody


else. The total number of handshakes is 66. How
PRINCIPLES OF COUNTING 8. How many permutations can be made out of the many persons are there in the room?
1. A group of 3 people enter a theater in how many letters of the word ENGINEERING? A. 14 C. 10
ways can they be seated? A. 772, 200 C. 720, 720 B. 12 D. 16
A. 6 C. 10 B. 277, 200 D. 272, 272
B. 3 D. 1 16.How many different sums of money can be made
9. How many different ways can 5 boys and 5 girls from a penny, a nickel, a dime and a quarter?
2. A palace has 7 entrance gates in the east and 12 form a circle with boys and girls alternate? A. 10 C. 15
exits gates in the west. In how many different A. 28, 800 C. 10 B. 20 D. 25
ways can a person enter and come out of the B. 288 D. 2, 800
palace? 17.Four different colored flags can be hung in a row
A. 792 C. 306 10.The number of ways can 8 beads of different to make coded signal. How many signals can be
B. 84 D. 140 colors be strung as a necklace is? made if the signal consists of the display of one
A. 2880 C. 2250 or two more flags?
3. Two towns A and B are connected by 3 roads and B. 2520 D. 2800 A. 60 C. 70
towns B and C are connected by 4 roads. In how B. 64 D. 72
many ways can one drive from A to C and return 11.A man and his wife invite 8 of their friends to a
to A via B if the same road is not to be travelled dinner. They are to sit around a round table. How PROGRESSION PROBLEMS
twice? many sitting arrangements can be made if the 18.If the 6th term of an A.P. is 11 and its 13 th term is
A. 12 C. 72 man and his wife are to sit opposite to each 123, then the 2nd term of this A.P. is:
B. 45 D. 144 other? A. -53 C. -61
A. 40, 680 C. 80, 640 B. -49 D. -72
4. How many words beginning with T and ending B. 60, 840 D. 6, 480
with E can be made (no letter repeated) out of 19.A family has 8 children, two of whom are twins.
the letters of the word TRIANGLE? 12.In how many ways can a student choose 5 The youngest is 3 years old and the oldest is 21
A. 50 C. 540 courses out of 9 if 2 courses are compulsory? years old. Their ages are in A.P. There are three
B. 1080 D. 720 A. 32 C. 45 children younger than the twins. How old are the
B. 35 D. 42 twins?
5. How many numbers of 4 different digits each A. 10 C. 14
greater than 5000 can be formed from digits 13.In how many ways can a club of 25 members B. 12 D. 16
1,2,3,4,5,6,7? choose a president, a vice president, a secretary
A. 60 C. 240 and a treasurer, if no member can hold more than 20.Three numbers are in A.P. Their sum is 18 and the
B. 90 D. 360 one position? sum of their squares is 126. Find the smallest
A. 306, 300 C. 603, 300 number of the A.P?
PERMUTATION & COMBINATION B. 303, 600 D. 603, 600 A. 1 C. 3
6. In how many ways can three men be assigned B. 2 D. 4
consecutive seats in a row of seven seats? 14.How many basketball quintets can be chosen
A. 24 C. 35 from a group of 15 players if one of them is the 21.If 1/18 and -1/486 are respectively the 4th and 7th
B. 30 D. 21 captain? term of G.P., then the first term of this G.P. is:
A. 1001 C. 24, 024 A. -11/6 C. -3/2
7. The number of ways in which 5 boys and 5 girls B. 3003 D. 360, 360 B. -4/7 D. -5/8
can be seated for a photograph so the no two
girls sit next to each other is:
A. 5!5! C. 10!6!
22.The 2nd and 5th term of a geometric series are -1/2 smaller, the quotient is 3 and the remainder is
and 1/16, respectively. Find the sum of the series 14. Find the bigger number
up to 8 terms? A. 105 C. 110
A. 104/139 C. 91/135 B. 100 D. 115
B. 78/121 D. 85/128
MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS
23.The first term of an infinite geometric series is 1 29.An audience of 540 people is seated in rows
and its every term is the sum of the next having the same number of persons in each row.
successive terms, then its fourth term will be? If 3 more persons sit in each row, it would require
A. 1/8 C. 1/4 2 rows less to seat the audience. How many
B. 1/2 D. 1/16 persons were in each row originally?
24.A ball is dropped from a height of 48 m and A. 50 C. 36
rebounds 2/3 of the distance it falls. If it B. 27 D. 54
continues to fall and rebound this way, the
distance that the ball travels before coming to 30.A man sold half an egg more than half his eggs.
rest is: He then sold half an egg more than his remaining
A. 196 m C. 144 m eggs. He did the same for the third time. If he
B. 240 m D. 272 m had 7 eggs left, how many eggs does he
originally have?
25.The sum of three numbers in H.P. is 11/12 and the A. 54 C. 72
sum of their reciprocals is 12. Find the smallest B. 45 D. 63
number?
A. 1/3 C. 1/6 31.A Chinese writer Sun Tsu Pao put these words into
B. 1/4 D. 1/5 the mouth of a woman washing dishes in the
river. “I don’t know how many guests there were
DIGIT & NUMBER PROBLEMS but every two used a dish for rice between them,
26.Six times the middle digit of a three-digit number every three a dish for broth and every four a dish
is the sum of the other two. If the number is for meat and there were 65 dishes in all”. How
divided by the sum of its digits, the answer is 51 many guests were there?
and the remainder is 11. If the digits are A. 70 C. 80
reversed, the number becomes smaller by 198. B. 60 D. 50
Find the number
A. 412 C.511
B. 939 D. 725

27.The denominator of a certain fraction is three


more than twice the numerator. If 7 is added to
both terms of the fraction, the resulting fraction is
3/5. Find the original fraction.
A. 5/13 C. 7 /13
B. 3/13 D. 9 /13

28.The number 142 is divided into two parts such


that when the greater part is divided by the

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