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THE CORE IAS

India’s First Institute Dedicated to Answer Writing

PERMUTATION & COMBINATION

PRELIMS
2025

By: Gaurav Nagar Sir


PERMUTATION & COMBINATION
1. Find out the distinct four-letter words that can be formed using the word SINGAPORE.
(a) 256 (b) 1024 (c) 302 (d) 2048

2. How many distinct words can be formed out of the word PROWLING which start with
R and end with W?
(a) 8!/2! (b) 6!2! (c) 6! (d) None of these

3. If the letters of the word PATNA, are used to form 5 letter words, how many words will
start with P and end with T?
(a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 11 (d) 12

4. How many permutations can be made out of the letters of the word TRIANGLE. How
many of these will begin with T and end with E?
(a) 120 (b) 24 (c) 720 (d) 625

5. In how many arrangements of the word GOLDEN will the vowels never occur
together?
(a) 120 (b) 240 (c) 480 (d) 720

6. In how many ways can the word PENCIL be arranged so that N is always next to E?
(a) 120 (b) 60 (c) 720 (d) None of these

7. In how many ways can two letters be selected from the English alphabet if repetition is
allowed?
(a) 650 (b) 325 (c) 52 (d) 51

8. If repetition is not allowed then how many distinct three-digit numbers can be formed
using the digits (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)?
(a) 40 way (b) 50 ways
(c) 60 way (d) 30 ways
9. How many can four digits be formed using the digits 0, 1, 2, and 3 (repetition is
allowed)?
(a) 12 (b) 24
(c) 256 (d) 192

10. Find out how many distinct three-digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9 such that the digits are in ascending order.
(a) 80 (b) 81
(c) 83 (d) 84

11. If repetition is allowed then how many different three digits numbers can be formed
using the digits from 1 to 5?
(a) 125 (b) 27
(c) 120 (d) None of the above

12. How many three-digit even numbers can be formed from the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6 if the
digits can be repeated?
(a) 120 (b) 108
(c) 200 (d) 720

13. How many 4-digit numbers can be formed with the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6 when the repetition
of the digits is allowed?
(a) 1296 (b) 216
(c) 36 (d) 6

14. How many numbers can be formed with the digits 1,2,3,4,3,2,1 so that the odd digits
always occupy the odd places?
(a) 18 (b) 36
(c) 24 (d) 36

15. How many four- digit numbers are possible, criteria being that all the four digits are
odd?
(a) 125 (b) 625
(c) 45 (d) None of these
16. The number of natural numbers of two or more than two digits in which digits from left
to right are in increasing order is
(a) 127 (b) 128
(c) 502 (d) 512

17. How many can 3 digits be formed using the digits from 1 to 5 if the digit 2 is never
there in the number?
(a) 24 (b) 36
(c) 4) (d) 52

18. If no repetition is not allowed then how many numbers between 2000 and 3000 can be
formed using the digits from 0 to 7?
(a) 42 (b) 336
(c) 210 (d) 440

19. How many 5-digit telephone number can be made using the digits 0 to 9, if each number
starts with 67 and no digit appears more than once?
(a) 240 (b) 120
(c) 336 (d) 708

20. In how many ways n different books be arranged such that two particular books are
never together?
(a) (n+2) (n+1)! (b) (n-2) (n-1)!
(c) (n+2) (n-1)! (d) None of these

21. In how many ways can a party of 4 men and 4 women be seated at a circular table so
that no two women are adjacent?
(a) 124 (b) 144
(c) 184 (d) 224

22. In how many ways a cricketer can score 200 runs with fours and sixes only?
(a) 13 (b) 17
(c) 19 (d) 16

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