MCQs of Permutation and Combination - Quantitative Aptitude

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There are 35 people in a group. There are 12 school girls, 10 school boys, 5 senior citizens and 8 babies in the group. The organizer of the group wants to select a school girl or a school boy as leader of the group. In how many ways can he do so?
(a) 22
(b) 11
(c) 35
(d) 13
Answer:

Option (a)

2
A committee of 3 members is to be made out of 6 men and 5 women. What is the probability that the committee has at least two women?
(a) 14/37
(b) 14/33
(c) 16/33
(d) 14/23
Answer:

Option (b)

3
How many 3-letter words with or without meaning, can be formed out of the letters of the word, 'LOGARITHMS', if repetition of letters is not allowed?
(a) 720
(b) 420
(c) 5040
(d) 2520
Answer:

Option (a)

4
In a set of 30 game cards, 17 are white and rest are green. 4 white and 5 green are marked IMPORTANT. If a card is chosen randomly from this set, what is the possibility of choosing a green card or an ‘IMPORTANT’ card?
(a) 13/30
(b) 17/30
(c) 22/30
(d) 0.692307692
Answer:

Option (b)

5
In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'MATHEMATICS' be arranged such that the vowels must always come together?
(a) 10020
(b) 140020
(c) 9800
(d) 120960
Answer:

Option (d)

6
There are a set of 20 students out of which 18 are boys and 2 are girls. They are to be seated in a circular manner so that the two girls are always separated by a boy. In how many ways can the students be arranged?
(a) 12
(b) 18! X 2
(c) 17 X 2!
(d) 17!
Answer:

Option (b)

7
There are two sections in a question paper each contains five questions. A student has to answer 6 questions. The maximum number of questions that can be answered from any section is 4. How many ways he can attempt the paper?
(a) 50
(b) 100
(c) 120
(d) 200
Answer:

Option (d)

8
A question paper has two parts P and Q, each containing 10 questions. If a student needs to choose 8 from part P and 4 from part Q, in how many ways can he do that?
(a) 6020
(b) 1200
(c) 9450
(d) 4563
Answer:

Option (c)

9
In a room there are 2 green chairs, 3 yellow chairs and 4 blue chairs. In how many ways can Raj choose 3 chairs so that at least one yellow chair is included?
(a) 3
(b) 30
(c) 64
(d) 84
Answer:

Option (c)

10
In how many ways can we arrange the word ‘FUZZTONE’ so that all the vowels come together?
(a) 14440
(b) 6
(c) 2160
(d) 4320
Answer:

Option (c)

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