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jee-advanced 2001 Q19 Counting Functions with Constraints View
19. Let $E = \{ 1,2,3,4 \}$ and $F = \{ 1,2 \}$. Then the number of onto functions from $E$ to $F$ is:
(A) 14
(B) 16
(C) 12
(D) 8
jee-advanced 2001 Q20 Geometric Combinatorics View
20. Let T\_n denote the number of triangles which can be formed using the vertices of a regular polygon of $n$ sides. If $T n + 1$ - $T n = 21$, then $n$ equals:
(A) 5
(B) 7
(C) 6
(D) 4
jee-advanced 2005 Q15 Lattice Path Counting View
15. A rectangle with sides ( $2 n - 1$ ) and ( $2 m - 1$ ) is divided into squares of unit length. The number of rectangle which can be formed with sides of odd length is :
(a) $m ^ { 2 } n ^ { 2 }$
(b) $m n ( m + 1 ) ( n + 1 )$
(c) $4 ^ { m + n - 1 }$
(d) none of these
Let $S = \{ 1,2,3,4 \}$. The total number of unordered pairs of disjoint subsets of $S$ is equal to
A) 25
B) 34
C) 42
D) 41
jee-advanced 2014 Q52 Geometric Combinatorics View
Let $n \geq 2$ be an integer. Take $n$ distinct points on a circle and join each pair of points by a line segment. Colour the line segment joining every pair of adjacent points by blue and the rest by red. If the number of red and blue line segments are equal, then the value of $n$ is
jee-advanced 2014 Q53 Counting Integer Solutions to Equations View
Let $n_1 < n_2 < n_3 < n_4 < n_5$ be positive integers such that $n_1 + n_2 + n_3 + n_4 + n_5 = 20$. Then the number of such distinct arrangements $(n_1, n_2, n_3, n_4, n_5)$ is
A debate club consists of 6 girls and 4 boys. A team of 4 members is to be selected from this club including the selection of a captain (from among these 4 members) for the team. If the team has to include at most one boy, then the number of ways of selecting the team is
(A) 380
(B) 320
(C) 260
(D) 95
Let $S = \{ 1,2,3 , \ldots , 9 \}$. For $k = 1,2 , \ldots , 5$, let $N _ { k }$ be the number of subsets of $S$, each containing five elements out of which exactly $k$ are odd. Then $N _ { 1 } + N _ { 2 } + N _ { 3 } + N _ { 4 } + N _ { 5 } =$
[A] 210
[B] 252
[C] 125
[D] 126
jee-advanced 2018 Q16 3 marks Selection with Group/Category Constraints View
In a high school, a committee has to be formed from a group of 6 boys $M _ { 1 } , M _ { 2 } , M _ { 3 } , M _ { 4 } , M _ { 5 } , M _ { 6 }$ and 5 girls $G _ { 1 } , G _ { 2 } , G _ { 3 } , G _ { 4 } , G _ { 5 }$.
(i) Let $\alpha _ { 1 }$ be the total number of ways in which the committee can be formed such that the committee has 5 members, having exactly 3 boys and 2 girls.
(ii) Let $\alpha _ { 2 }$ be the total number of ways in which the committee can be formed such that the committee has at least 2 members, and having an equal number of boys and girls.
(iii) Let $\alpha _ { 3 }$ be the total number of ways in which the committee can be formed such that the committee has 5 members, at least 2 of them being girls.
(iv) Let $\alpha _ { 4 }$ be the total number of ways in which the committee can be formed such that the committee has 4 members, having at least 2 girls and such that both $M _ { 1 }$ and $G _ { 1 }$ are NOT in the committee together.
LIST-I P. The value of $\alpha _ { 1 }$ is Q. The value of $\alpha _ { 2 }$ is R. The value of $\alpha _ { 3 }$ is S. The value of $\alpha _ { 4 }$ is
LIST-II
  1. 136
  2. 189
  3. 192
  4. 200
  5. 381
  6. 461

The correct option is:
(A) $\mathbf { P } \rightarrow \mathbf { 4 } ; \mathbf { Q } \rightarrow \mathbf { 6 ; ~ } \mathbf { R } \rightarrow \mathbf { 2 ; } \mathbf { S } \rightarrow \mathbf { 1 }$
(B) $\mathbf { P } \rightarrow \mathbf { 1 } ; \mathbf { Q } \rightarrow \mathbf { 4 } ; \mathbf { R } \rightarrow \mathbf { 2 } ; \mathbf { S } \rightarrow \mathbf { 3 }$
(C) $\mathbf { P } \rightarrow \mathbf { 4 } ; \mathbf { Q } \rightarrow \mathbf { 6 } ; \mathbf { R } \rightarrow \mathbf { 5 } ; \mathbf { S } \rightarrow \mathbf { 2 }$
(D) $\mathbf { P } \rightarrow \mathbf { 4 } ; \mathbf { Q } \rightarrow \mathbf { 2 } ; \mathbf { R } \rightarrow \mathbf { 3 } ; \mathbf { S } \rightarrow \mathbf { 1 }$
An engineer is required to visit a factory for exactly four days during the first 15 days of every month and it is mandatory that no two visits take place on consecutive days. Then the number of all possible ways in which such visits to the factory can be made by the engineer during 1-15 June 2021 is $\_\_\_\_$
In a hotel, four rooms are available. Six persons are to be accommodated in these four rooms in such a way that each of these rooms contains at least one person and at most two persons. Then the number of all possible ways in which this can be done is $\_\_\_\_$
jee-advanced 2021 Q1 Basic Combination Computation View
Let $$\begin{gathered} S _ { 1 } = \{ ( i , j , k ) : i , j , k \in \{ 1,2 , \ldots , 10 \} \} , \\ S _ { 2 } = \{ ( i , j ) : 1 \leq i < j + 2 \leq 10 , i , j \in \{ 1,2 , \ldots , 10 \} \} , \\ S _ { 3 } = \{ ( i , j , k , l ) : 1 \leq i < j < k < l , \quad i , j , k , l \in \{ 1,2 , \ldots , 10 \} \} \end{gathered}$$ and $$S _ { 4 } = \{ ( i , j , k , l ) : i , j , k \text { and } l \text { are distinct elements in } \{ 1,2 , \ldots , 10 \} \} .$$ If the total number of elements in the set $S _ { r }$ is $n _ { r } , r = 1,2,3,4$, then which of the following statements is (are) TRUE ?
(A) $n _ { 1 } = 1000$
(B) $n _ { 2 } = 44$
(C) $n _ { 3 } = 220$
(D) $\frac { n _ { 4 } } { 12 } = 420$
jee-advanced 2022 Q15 3 marks Selection with Group/Category Constraints View
Consider 4 boxes, where each box contains 3 red balls and 2 blue balls. Assume that all 20 balls are distinct. In how many different ways can 10 balls be chosen from these 4 boxes so that from each box at least one red ball and one blue ball are chosen ?
(A) 21816
(B) 85536
(C) 12096
(D) 156816
jee-advanced 2023 Q10 4 marks Probability via Permutation Counting View
Let $X$ be the set of all five digit numbers formed using $1,2,2,2,4,4,0$. For example, 22240 is in $X$ while 02244 and 44422 are not in $X$. Suppose that each element of $X$ has an equal chance of being chosen. Let $p$ be the conditional probability that an element chosen at random is a multiple of 20 given that it is a multiple of 5. Then the value of $38p$ is equal to
jee-advanced 2024 Q11 4 marks Partitioning into Teams or Groups View
A group of 9 students, $s _ { 1 } , s _ { 2 } , \ldots , s _ { 9 }$, is to be divided to form three teams $X , Y$, and $Z$ of sizes 2,3 , and 4 , respectively. Suppose that $s _ { 1 }$ cannot be selected for the team $X$, and $s _ { 2 }$ cannot be selected for the team $Y$. Then the number of ways to form such teams, is $\_\_\_\_$ .
jee-advanced 2024 Q14 3 marks Subset Counting with Set-Theoretic Conditions View
Let $S = \{ 1,2,3,4,5,6 \}$ and $X$ be the set of all relations $R$ from $S$ to $S$ that satisfy both the following properties: i. $R$ has exactly 6 elements. ii. For each $( a , b ) \in R$, we have $| a - b | \geq 2$. Let $Y = \{ R \in X$ : The range of $R$ has exactly one element $\}$ and $Z = \{ R \in X : R$ is a function from $S$ to $S \}$. Let $n ( A )$ denote the number of elements in a set $A$. If $n ( X ) = {}^{ m } C _ { 6 }$, then the value of $m$ is $\_\_\_\_$ .
jee-advanced 2024 Q15 3 marks Subset Counting with Set-Theoretic Conditions View
Let $S = \{ 1,2,3,4,5,6 \}$ and $X$ be the set of all relations $R$ from $S$ to $S$ that satisfy both the following properties: i. $R$ has exactly 6 elements. ii. For each $( a , b ) \in R$, we have $| a - b | \geq 2$. Let $Y = \{ R \in X$ : The range of $R$ has exactly one element $\}$ and $Z = \{ R \in X : R$ is a function from $S$ to $S \}$. Let $n ( A )$ denote the number of elements in a set $A$. If the value of $n ( Y ) + n ( Z )$ is $k ^ { 2 }$, then $| k |$ is $\_\_\_\_$ .
jee-main 2007 Q85 Partitioning into Teams or Groups View
The set $S = \{ 1,2,3 , \ldots , 12 )$ is to be partitioned into three sets $A , B , C$ of equal size. Thus, $A \cup B \cup C = S , A \cap B = B \cap C = A \cap C = \phi$. The number of ways to partition $S$ is
(1) $\frac { 12 ! } { 3 ! ( 4 ! ) ^ { 3 } }$
(2) $\frac { 12 ! } { 3 ! ( 3 ! ) ^ { 4 } }$
(3) $\frac { 12 ! } { ( 4 ! ) ^ { 3 } }$
(4) $\frac { 12 ! } { ( 3 ! ) ^ { 4 } }$
This question has Statement-1 and Statement-2. Of the four choices given after the statements, choose the one that best describes the two statements. Statement-1: The number of ways of distributing 10 identical balls in 4 distinct boxes such that no box is empty is ${}^{9}\mathrm{C}_{3}$. Statement-2: The number of ways of choosing any 3 places from 9 different places is ${}^{9}\mathrm{C}_{3}$.
(1) Statement-1 is true, Statement-2 is true; Statement-2 is not a correct explanation for Statement-1.
(2) Statement-1 is true, Statement-2 is false.
(3) Statement-1 is false, Statement-2 is true.
(4) Statement-1 is true, Statement-2 is true; Statement-2 is a correct explanation for Statement-1.
jee-main 2012 Q63 Basic Combination Computation View
If the number of 5-element subsets of the set $A = \left\{ a _ { 1 } , a _ { 2 } , \ldots , a _ { 20 } \right\}$ of 20 distinct elements is $k$ times the number of 5-element subsets containing $a _ { 4 }$, then $k$ is
(1) 5
(2) $\frac { 20 } { 7 }$
(3) 4
(4) $\frac { 10 } { 3 }$
If $n = { } ^ { m } C _ { 2 }$, then the value of ${ } ^ { n } C _ { 2 }$ is given by
(1) $3 \left( { } ^ { m + 1 } C _ { 4 } \right)$
(2) ${ } ^ { m - 1 } C _ { 4 }$
(3) ${ } ^ { m + 1 } C _ { 4 }$
(4) $2 \left( { } ^ { m + 2 } C _ { 4 } \right)$
The number of 3-digit numbers, with distinct digits, that can be formed using the digits $1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7$ and divisible by 3 is
(1) 80
(2) 120
(3) 40
(4) 108
A committee of 4 persons is to be formed from 2 ladies, 2 old men and 4 young men such that it includes at least 1 lady, at least 1 old man and at most 2 young men. Then the total number of ways in which this committee can be formed is :
(1) 40
(2) 41
(3) 16
(4) 32
jee-main 2013 Q64 Geometric Combinatorics View
Let $T_n$ be the number of all possible triangles formed by joining vertices of an $n$-sided regular polygon. If $T_{n+1} - T_n = 10$, then the value of $n$ is:
(1) 10
(2) 8
(3) 5
(4) 7
Let $A$ and $B$ be two sets containing 2 elements and 4 elements respectively. The number of subsets of $A \times B$ having 3 or more elements is:
(1) 219
(2) 211
(3) 256
(4) 220