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Quantitative Ability

PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS


Fundamental counting Principle
Q. A shopping mall has 3 distinct glass doors and 2 distinct metal doors for entry and has 5
distinct glass doors and a wooden door for exit.
A. In how many ways can you enter the mall?
B. In how many way the entry and the exit can happen?
C. In how many ways can you leave the mall?
Q. If there are 3 trains from A to B , 5 trains from B to C ,6 trains from C to D and 2 trains
from D to A .In how many ways can a person travel from A to D(via B and C) and return back
to A again ?
Q. The total no.of ways of answering all 5 objective type questions each question having 4
choices is?
Permutations and Combinations
Q. A committee of 5 persons is to be formed from 6 men and 4 women. In how many ways
this can be done when at least 2 women are included?

A. 123
B. 134
C. 173
D. 186
Q. A conference is attended by 25 participants. If each participant shakes hand with every
other participant, what will be the resultant number of handshakes?

A. 25
B. 325
C. 300
D. 50
Q. Out of 11 points there are 4 collinear points how many triangles can be formed by using
the points as vertex?
Q. How many 3 letter words can be formed by using different alphabets?
Q. How many parallelograms are formed by a set of 6 parallel lines(horizontal) intersecting
another set of 4 parallel lines(vertical)?

A. 24
B. 90
C. 15
D. None of these
Word and Number problems
Q. How many ways 5 letter words can be formed using the letters of the word “GREAT”
1)If repetition of alphabets is allowed
2)If repetition of alphabets is not allowed
3)Such that all the vowels are together
4) Such that all the vowels are not together
5)Such that all the consonants are together
6) Such that all the consonants are not together
7) Such that all the vowels are together and all the consonants are together
Q. In how many ways can be the letters of the word “STRANGE” be arranged so that the
vowel may appear in odd places?
Q. How many 7 digit telephone numbers can be formed with 6 and 5 at the right and left
extreme ends respectively?

A) 2160
B) 720
C) 6720
D) 4320
Q. How many 6 digit even numbers can be formed from digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 so that the
digit should not repeat and the second last digit is even?

A) 6480
B) 320
C) 2160
D) 720
Q.
1) Find the number of 5 digit numbers that are formed by using digits 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7.
2) Divisible by 2
Divisible by 4
Divisible by 5
Q. Find the sum of all 4 digit numbers formed by taking the digit 2,4,5 and 7 ?
Seating arrangement
In how many ways can 5 friends sit around a table?

How many necklaces can be formed with 7 different beads?

How many garlands can be formed with 6 different coloured roses?

How many ways can 4 judges be arranged in a round table conference?


Q. Then no.of ways in which 5 boys and 5 girls can sit in a row such that no two girls will sit
together?
Q. In how many ways can eight directors, Vice-chairman and chairman of a firm be seated a
round table, if the chairman has to sit between the Vice-chairman and a director?

A. 2 * 7!
B. 9! * 2
C. 2 * 8!
D. None of these
Q. In how many ways can 5 letters be posted in 4 post - boxes?__________
PROBABILITY
Q. What is the probability that a number selected from 1 to 30 is a prime number, when each
of the given numbers is equally likely to be selected?

(a) 9/30
(b) 8/30
(c) 10/30
d) 11/30
Q. What is the probability that a number selected from 1-70 is a perfect square or a perfect
cube?
Q. A bag contains 5 RED, 7 YELLOW, 8 GREEN balls. 3 Balls are drawn at random. What is the
probability that the balls drawn contain balls of different colours?
Q. A bag contains 2 RED, 3 GREEN and 2 BLUE balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is
the probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?
Q. In a drawer there are 4 white socks, 3 blue socks and 5 grey socks. Two socks are picked
randomly. What is the possibility that both the socks are of same colour?
(a) 4/11
(b) 1
(c) 2/33
(d) 19/66
Q. There are 2 boxes , 1 has 5 green and 6 yellow balls while the other has 4 green and 8
yellow balls , you randomly selected a ball from any box . What is probability that it’s a green
ball?
Q. There are two bags containing white and black balls. In the first bag there are 8 white and 6
black balls and in the second bag there are 4 white and 7 black balls. One of the ball is chosen
at random from the bag. Find the probability that particular ball is being black?

A) 41/77
B) 21/308
C) 8/77
D) 36/308
Q. A man and his wife appear in an interview for two vacancies in the same post. The
probability of husband's selection is (1/7) and the probability of wife's selection is (1/5). What
is the probability that only one of them is selected?
(a) 2/7
(b) 1/7
(c) 3/4
(d) 4/5
Q. When two coins are tossed, find the probability of getting at least one head.

A. 1/4
B. 2/4
C. 3/4
D. 4/4
Q. When 3 coins are tossed find the probability of getting
A. At least 2 heads
B. At most 2 heads
C. No heads
D. At least 1 head
E. At most 1 head and 1 tail
Q. What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of a dice?
Q. When two dice are thrown simultaneously, what is the probability that the sum of the two
numbers that turn up is less than 11?
(a) 5/6
(b) 11/12
(c) 1/6
(d) 1/12
Q. A card is drawn from a deck of cards. Find the probability of getting
A. A spade card
B. 2 red cards
C. A king
D. 3 red ace cards
E. 2 face cards
F. A red faced card
G. Queen of hearts
H. Neither the heart nor the king
I. Neither an ace nor a king
J. 2 cards but not black cards
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