SMART MASTERMIND SUCCEED

QUANTS BY MUTHAMILSELVAN SIR

PERMUTATION AND COMBINATION

1. In how many different ways can the letters of the word "CORONA"
be arranged?
A.720
B.360
C.180
D.280
E.None of these

2. In how many ways word “ANOTHER” be arranged in that all vowels

and all the consonants come together?
A.288
B.144
C.720
D.476
E. None of these

3. In how many ways the word ‘Television' can be arranged, so that

vowels never come together.
A.885,500
B.865,500
C.865,600
D.885,600
E.None of these

4. In how many different ways can the letters of the word

"PANDEMIC" be arranged so that vowels always come together?
A.4320
B.2160
C.8640
D.17280
E.None of these

5. In how many different ways can the letters of the word

'WORLDCUP' be arranged so that the vowels are always at the two
ends?
A.1440
B.1080
C.1520
D.1680
E.None of these

6. In how many ways the letters of the word “SAMEER” can be

arranged so that in first and last position there should always be a
vowel.
A.48
B.72
C.96
D.24
E.None of these
7. From a group of 8men and 4women, 6 members are to be selected
to form a committee, so that at most 3 men are there in the
committee, in how many ways it can be done?
A.226
B.248
C.252
D.270
E.None of these

8. To form volleyball team, there are 10 boys and 8 girls out of which a
team of 8 players to be formed. In how many ways a team can be
formed consisting of at least 4 girls and 2 boys?
A.21840
B.22880
C.21420
D.22480
E. None of these

9. A company has to recruit a certain number of candidates for the

post of Manager. 25 vacancies are to be filled through this recruitment
process, these out of 10 are reserved for the candidate who have
done MBA course. A total of 50 candidates have applied for the post,
out of which 15 have done MBA course. In how many ways can the
recruitment process be carried out?
A.35C15 x 15C10
B.35C15 x 15C15
C.15C10x 15C10
D.35C10x 15C10
E.None of these
10. A student has to answer 8 out of 12 questions in a way that he
should choose at least 5 from the 1st 6 questions. Find the number of
choices?
A.125
B.115
C.265
D.135
E.None of these

11. A box contains 2 white balls, 3 green balls, 4 red balls and 5 black
balls. In how many ways can 3 balls can be drawn from the box, if at
most 3 black balls is to be included in the draw?
A.364
B.332
C.366
D.340
E.None of these

12. In how many ways a word of 5 different letters can be formed

using two vowels?
(a) 1596000
(b) 1192000
(c) 1233000
(d) 2520000
(e) None of these

13. How many 6 digits numbers can be formed from the digits 0, 2, 4,
5, 6, and 8 without repetition of digits?
(a) 300
(b) 900
(c) 600
(d) 200
(e) None of these

14. How many three digit numbers can be formed with the digits 2,
3,5, 6,9, if repetition of digits is allowed?
(a) 125
(b) 240
(c) 144
(d) 720
(e) None of these

15. How many 3 digit numbers can be formed from the digit 1, 2, 3, 5,
7 which are divisible by 5 and none of the digits is repeated?
(a) 3
(b) 16
(c) 9
(d) 12
(e) None of these

16. How many numbers of 5 digits which is divisible of 5 can be

formed using digits from 0 - 9, if repetition is allowed?
(a) 20000
(b) 9000
(c) 90000
(d) 18000
(e) None of these

17. Using these digits 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 how many numbers can be

formed which is greater than 800 and less than 4000? (Repetition of
digit is not allowed)
(a) 400
(b) 300
(c) 560
(d) 480
(e)None of these

18. There are 5 girls and 5 boys. If they want to sit at different
positions, then how many ways in which girls and boys sit at alternate
position?
A.14400
B.86400
C.28800
D.56800
E.None of these

19. A box contains 4 apples and 4 Oranges. In how many ways

required if all the apples are arranged together and all the oranges are
arranged together?
A.14400
B.1152
C.7226
D.2178
E.None of these

20. In a school there are 9 male teachers and 6 female teachers.

School has to form a group of 6 teachers such that at least 3 male
teachers and 1 female teacher are there in the group. In how many
ways it can be formed ?
A.4433
B.4535
C.4326
D.4400
E.None of these

21. 20 people shake hands with each other. How many handshakes
will be there in total?
a) 120
b) 190
c) 168
d) 210
e) None of these

22. In a birthday party, every person shakes hand with every other
person. If there was a total of 28 handshakes in the party, how many
persons were present in the party?
a) 8
b) 7
c) 9
d) 11
el None of these

23. If no. of handshakes done in meeting 120 means, Find the ways of
choosing 3 women and 5 men in the meeting, if men and women ratio
is 5:3 ?
a)2480
b)3100
c)2520
d)5040
e) None of these

24. There is a summit in which 12 ministers will meet. In how many

ways these ministers can be seated along a round table if four
particular ministers always sit together.
A. 8!*4!
B. 7!*4!
C. 8!*3!
D. 9!*3!
E. 7!*3!

25. Find in how many ways a 6 digit number can be formed by using
digits 2, 4, 3, 2, 5, 1 so that even digits occupy even places and odd
digits occupy odd places?
(a) 9
(b) 12
(c) 18
(d) 15
(e) None of these
26. A team of 11 player including batsman, all rounder and bowlers is
chosen from 18 players in which 7 are batsman, 4 are all rounder and
7 are bowlers. Find in how many ways a team is made consisting of
atleast 5 batsman, atmost 5 bowlers and exact 1 all rounder?
(a) 1946
(d) 1764
(b) 2884
(c) 2444
(e) None of these

27. In how many ways can be a fresh egg is chosen from two basket A
and B of eggs. The ratio of eggs in basket A and B is 3: 4. If ratio of
fresh eggs in basket A to basket B is 3: 5 and rotten eggs in basket A is
20% more than rotten eggs in basket B and total rotten eggs in basket
A and basket B are 22?
(a) 38
(b) 30
(c) 45
(d) 48
(e) None of these
PROBABILITY

1. A basket contains 7 green, 5 red and 3 orange balls. A person draws

2 balls at random from the basket. What will be the probability that
both balls are of different colors?
A. 71/105
B. 109/96
C. 19/97
D. 188/17
E. 82/23

2. A bag contains 5 green,4 yellow, 3 red, and 6 orange balls. If 12 balls

are drawn at random, what is the probability that there are an equal
number of balls of each color?
A. 1/309
B. 199/609
C. 233/900
D. 200/4641
E. 1/2498

3. A group of 90 people applied for opening a bank account. 68 opted

for a savings account, 58 opted for a current account, and 36 opted for
both savings and current accounts. If one of these people is selected
at random, find the probability that the person opted for saving or
current account?
A. 1/3
B. 1/6
C. 3/5
D. 1/18
E. 1/24

4. One card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards.

If each outcome is equally likely, calculate the probability that the card
will not be a jack?
A. 13/3
B. 11/6
C. 11/9
D. 12/13
E. 12/24

5. Four cards are drawn at a time from a pack of 52 playing cards. Find
the probability of getting all the four cards of the same suit?
A. None of these
B. 1/609
C. 44/4165
D. 11/1865
E. 1/2490

6. Two cards are drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is

the probability that either both are red or both are kings?
A. 1/398
B. 5/666
C. 3/221
D. 1/181
E. None of these
7. One card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards, each of the 52 cards
being equally likely to be drawn. Find the probability that the card
drawn is a red face card?
A. 1/38
B. 5/66
C. 3/26
D. 1/18
E. None of these

8. From a bag consisting 5 yellow balls and 7 green balls, 4 balls are
drawn. Find the probability that at least 3 green balls are drawn?
A. 1/35
B. 5/66
C. 3/26
D. 1/18
E. None of these

9. A bag contains 4 yellow, 5 green, 2 blue and 3 red balls. If 3 balls are
drawn at random, what is the probability that at least one is red?
A. 133/398
B. 53/666
C. 322/221
D. 199/364
E. None of these

10. Rakesh threw two dices together. What is the probability that the
sum of the two outcomes is 5 or 7?
A. 1/38
B. 5/18
C. 3/21
D. 1/81
E. None of these

11. Rekha threw two dices simultaneously. What is the probability of

getting two numbers whose product is even number?
A. 1/3
B. 5/8
C. 3/4
D. 1/8
E. None of these

12. Three dices are thrown together. Find the probability of getting a
total of at least 5?
A. 1/3
B. 53/54
C. 31/23
D. 3/44
E. None of these

13. A dice is thrown twice, what is the probability that at least one of
the two throws comes up with the number 4?
A. 38/39
B. 53/54
C. 33/21
D. 11/36
E. None of these

14. When 4 fair coins are tossed together, what is the probability of
getting at least 3 tails?
A. 11/36
B. 53/66
C. 31/21
D. 5/16
E. None of these

15. Three fair coins are tossed simultaneously, find out the probability
that:-
l. there are at least 2 tails?
II. there are exactly 2 heads?

16. From a box containing 12 electric bulbs, out of which 25% are
defective. Two bulbs are chosen at random. What is the probability
that the room is lighted by the bulb?
A. 17/39
B. 21/22
C. 31/22
D. 11/19
E. None of these

17. A basket contains x white, 6 red and 4 yellow colour balls. If one
ball is taken randomly from the basket and the probability of getting a
red colour ball is 2/5, then find the total number of balls in the basket.
A.12
B.18
C.16
D.15
E. None of these

18. A box contains red and green balls and the total number of balls in
the box is 15. If the probability of picking a green ball is 0.4, find the
number of red balls from the box.
A.8
B.7
C.9
D.6
E.12

19. A bag contains (x – 1) red balls, 3 blue balls and 4 green balls. If
one ball is taken out randomly and the probability of getting a green
ball is 2/5, find the value of x.
A.4
B.6
C.2
D.3
E.1

20. A bag contains 30 balls numbered from 1 to 30. Two balls are
selected one by one with replacement at random. What is the
probability that the first ball is a prime number and second ball is a
perfect square?
A. 1/3
B. 1/6
C. 1/9
D. 1/18
E. 1/24

21. A bag contains 12 white balls and 16 black balls. If two balls are
drawn in succession without replacement then what is probability
that the first is white and the second is black?
A. 32/20
B. 43/63
C. 41/20
D. 16/63
E. 15/79