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IIT – JEE: 2020 TW TEST (ADV) DATE: 22/12/18

TIME: 1 Hr. TOPIC: PERMUTATION & COMBINATIONS MARKS: 80

SECTION-I (SINGLE ANSWER CORRECT TYPE)

This section contains 05 Multiple choice questions. Each question has 4 choices (A), (B), (C) and (D)
for its answer, out which ONLY ONE is correct. (+4, –1)

41. The number of signals that can be made with 3 flags each of different colour by hoisting 1 or 2 or 3
of the above mentioned flags is
(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 15 (D) 16

42. 5 boys and 3 girls are sitting in a row of 8 seats. Number of ways in which they can be seated so that
not all girls sit side by side is :
(A) 36000 (B) 9080 (C) 3960 (D) 16000

43. 10 different letters of an alphabet are given. Words with 5 letters are formed from these given letters.
Then the number of words which have atleast one letter repeated is :
(A) 69760 (B) 30240 (C) 77748 (D) None

44. The number of numbers from 1000 to 9999 (both inclusive) that do not have all 4 different digits is :
(A) 4048 (B) 4464 (C) 4518 (D) 4536

45. 8 chairs are numbered from 1 to 8. 2 women and 3 men wish to occupy one chair each. First the
women choose the chairs from amongst the chair marked 1 to 4, then the men select the chairs from
among the remaining. The number of possible arrangements is :
(A) 6C3  4C4 (B) 4 P2  4 P3 (C) 4C3  4 P3 (D) 4 P2  6 P3

SECTION-II (MULTIPLE ANSWER(S) CORRECT TYPE)

This section contains 10 multiple choice questions. Each question has 4 choices (A), (B), (C) and (D)
for its answer, out which ONE OR MORE is/are correct. (+4, –2)
Partial Marks: +1 For darkening a bubble corresponding to each correct option. Provided NO
incorrect option is darkened. In all other cases, minus (–2) mark will be awarded in these parts.
For Example: If (A), (C) and (D) are all the correct options for a question, darkening all these three
will result in +4 marks; darkening only (A) and (D) will result in +2 marks; and darkening (A) and
(B) will result in –2 marks, as a wrong option is also darkened.

2n
46. Pn is equal to
(A)  n  1   n  2 .........2n (B) 2n 1 3  5.........   2n 1 
(C) 2  6 10...........  4n  2 (D) n ! 2 nCn

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47. A person wants to invite one or more of his friends for a dinner party. In how many ways can be do
so if he has eight friends?
(A) 28 (B) 28  1
(C) 82 (D) 8C1  8C2  8C3  ...... 8C8

48. m points on one straight line are joined to n points on another straight line. The number of points of
intersection of the line segments thus formed is
mn  m  1 n  1
(A) mC2  nC2 (B)
4
m
C2  C2
m
(C) (D) mC2  nC2
2

49. A woman has 11 close friends. Number of ways in which she can invite 5 of them to dinner, if two
particular of them are not on speaking terms and will not attend together is :
(A) 11C5  9C3 (B) 9C5  2  9C4 (C) 3  9C4 (D) 378

50. In a cricket match between Australia and India, Dhoni wants to bat before Virat, and Virat wants to
bat before Rohit. Number of possible batting orders with the above restrictions, if the remaining
eight term members are prepared to bat at any given place is :
11! 11!
(A) (B) 11C3  8! (C) (D) None
3! 3

51. The number of ways of arranging the letters AAAAA, BBB, CCC, D, EE and F in a row if the letter
C are separated from one another is :
13
C3 12! 13! 14! 11 13!
(A) (B) (C) (D)
5!3!2! 5!3!3!2! 3!3!2! 6!

52. For a game in which two partners oppose two other partners, 8 men are available. If every possible
pair must play with every other pair, the number of games played is:
8
C2  6C2
(A) 8C2  6C2 (B) 8C2  6C2  2 (C) 8C4  3 (D)
2

53. There are 10 points P1 , P2 , ........, P10 in a plane, no three of which are collinear. Number of straight
lines which can be determined by these points which do not pass through the points P1 or P2 is
(A) C2  2  9C1
10
(B) 27 (C) 8C2 (D) C2  2  9C1  1
10

54. Number of quadrilateral which can be constructed by joining the vertices of a convex polygon of 20
sides if none of the side of the polygon is also the side of the quadrilateral is :
15
C3  20
(A) 17C4  15C2 (B) (C) 2275 (D) 2125
4

55. In an examination, a candidate is required to pass in all the four subjects he is studying. Then number
of ways in which he can fail is
(A) 4 P1  4 P2  4 P3  4 P4 (B) 44  1
(C) 24  1 (D) 4C1  4C2  4C3  4C4

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 SECTION-III (INTEGER ANSWER TYPE)
This section contains 05 questions. The answer to each question is a NUMERICAL VALUE. For each
question, enter the correct numerical value (in decimal notation, truncated/rounded-off to the second
decimal place; e.g. 6.25, 7.00, 0.33, 30.27, 127.30) (+4, –1)

56. In a certain test, there are n questions. In this test, 2n – k students gave wrong answers to atleast k
questions, where k = 1, 2, 3, …., n. If the total number of wrong answers is 2047, then n is equal to

57. If one quarter of all three elements subsets of the set A = {a1, a2, a3, ……., an} contains the element
a3, then n equals

m
58. If mCr  0 for r  m , then the sum 
r 0
18
Cr 20
Cm  r is maximum when m equals

59. Let n be the number of ways in which 5 boys and 5 girls can stand in a queue in such a way that all
the girls stand consecutively in the queue. Let m be the number of ways in which 5 boys and 5 girls
can stand in a queue in such a way that exactly four girls stand consecutively in the queue. Then, the
m
value of is
n

60. Let Tn denotes the number of triangles which can be formed using the vertices of a regular polygon
of n sides. If Tn + 1 – Tn = 21, then n equals

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 MUMBAI / AKOLA / DELHI / KOLKATA / LUCKNOW / NASHIK / GOA / BOKARO / PUNE / NAGPUR
IIT – JEE: 2020 TW TEST (ADV) DATE: 16/12/18
TOPIC: PERMUTATION & COMBINATIONS

ANSWER KEY

41. (C) 42. (A) 43. (A) 44. (B) 45. (D)

46. (ABCD) 47. (BD) 48. (AB) 49. (ABCD) 50. (AB)

51. (AD) 52. (CD) 53. (CD) 54. (ABC) 55. (CD)

56. (11) 57. (12) 58. (19) 59. (5) 60. (7)

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