(1) Find the number of integral solution of the equation X1 + X2 + X3 + ..

+ Xk = 4k2 2k + 1, where X1 1, X2 3, X3 5 Xk 2k 1 (2) In how many ways can 10 persons take seats in a row of 24 fixed seats so that no two persons take consecutive seats? (a) 15C10 x 10P10 (b) 15C10 (c) 24C10 x 10P10 (d) None of these

(3) 10 different letters are printed round a circle. In how many ways can you select 3 letters so that no two are consecutive? (a) 50 (b) 126 (c) 35 (d) 56

(4) In how many different ways can the letters of the word MIRNAL be placed in the 8 boxes of the given figure, such that each row contains at least one word?

(a) 18720

(b) 26

(c) 7200

(d) None of these

(5) In how many ways we can choose 10 balls from unlimited number of black, white, blue and pink balls if the selections contain balls of the four colours? (a) 286 (b) 84 (c) (d) 1

(6) In how many ways can 30 identical balls be distributed among 3 identical boxes? (a) 92 (b) 91 (c) 89 (d) 90

(7) Between two junction stations X and Y there are 12 intermediate stations. The number of ways in which a train can be made to stop at 4 of these stations so that no two of these halting stations are consecutive is (a) 70 (b) 126 (c) 210 (d) None of these (8) A train going from Delhi to Kanpur stops at 7 intermediate stations. Five persons enter the train during the journey with five different tickets of same class. How many different set of tickets they could have had? (a) 7325 (b) 2898 (c) 98280 (d) None of these

(9) In how many ways can a mixed double game can be arranged from amongst 8 married couples if no husband and wife play in the same game? (a) 240 (b) 480 (c) 840 (d) 420

(10) How many natural numbers less than 1000 will have their sum of the digits not more than 7? (a) 55 (b) 120 (c) 126 (d) none of these

(11) Ram throws a dice 3 times. How many ways can he get sum 12? (a) 25 (c) 15 (c) 20 (d) none of these

(12) A boy has to climb 10 steps. He tosses one coin. If head comes, he climbs a single step. If tail comes, he climbs 2 steps. In how many ways can he climb 10 steps? (a) 90 (b) 89 (c) 92 (d) 91

(13) There are 10 points in a plane of which no three points are collinear and 4 points are concyclic. The number of different circle that can be drawn through at least 3 points of these points, is (a) 116 (b) 118 (c) 119 (d) 120

(14) Let Tn denote the number of triangles which can be formed using the vertices of a regular polygon of n sides. If Tn+1 Tn = 21, then find the value of each interior angle of the polygon? (a) 600 (b) 51.430 (c) 128.570 (d) 1200

(15) There are 5 pairs of hand gloves of 5 different colours. In how many ways can they be paired off so that a left handed glove and a right handed glove are not of the same colour? (a) 20 (b) 44 (c) 9 (d) 5!

(16) 7 brothers dine at a round table. They dine together till each of them dines with different neighbours i.e. they do not like to dine with same neighbours in any two arrangements. In a year how many days they dine together? (a) 180 (b) 360 (c) 504 (d) 720

(17) A circular pizza is cut into four identical pieces with two diametrical cuts made perpendicular to each other. Each piece can be topped with any one of five available toppings but no two adjacent pieces have the same topping. In how many ways can the four pieces be topped?

(a) 70

(b) 160

(c) 240

(d) 260

(18) The school is growing rapidly and now has 100 students. These students are given roll numbers from 1-100. It is time for the first annual day event. One of the dance events requires all the 100 students to be arranged in a circle. The principal, who always doubted the dance teachers math abilities, asks her to arrange the students in such a way that the sum of roll numbers of every two students placed opposite to each other is the same. How many ways can dance teacher arrange them? (a) 49! (b) 249x 49! (c) 250 x 50! (d) 99!

(19) Deepta draws a circle of radius 1. Draw a smaller circle inside this circle such that you choose BOTH the centre and the radius of the smaller circle randomly. If the constraint is that the new circle is fully contained in the original circle, what is the probability that the smaller circle contains the centre of the original circle? (a) 0.24 (b) 0.61 (c) 0.166 (d) 0.306

(20) India and Pakistan play a series of games, where the winner is declared as soon as either of the team has 2 points more than the opponent. Both teams start at par, and each win gets a point to the winning team. If Pakistan has a 60% chance of winning each game, what is the probability that Pakistan will win the series? (Assume that each game ends up in a result no draws.) (a) 9/19 (b) 9/13 (c) 10/13 (d) None of these

Direction for question numbers 21 to 27: - There are 3 boxes and 4 balls. All these balls are to be distributed into these boxes where any box can contain any number of coins. (21) In how many ways all these balls can be distributed if all balls are identical but all boxes are different? (a) 15 (b) 16 (c) 17 (d) 81

(22) In how many ways all these balls can be distributed if all balls are identical but all boxes are identical? (a) 1 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 8

(23) In how many ways all these balls can be distributed if all balls are different but all boxes are identical? (a) 14 (b) 21 (c) 27 (d) None of these

(24) In how many ways all these balls can be distributed if all balls are different but all boxes are different?

(a) 34

(b) 43

(c) 4P3

(d) 4! X 3!

(25) In how many ways all these balls can be distributed such that no pot is empty if all balls are different but all boxes are identical? (a) 6 (b) 16 (c) 21 (d) 42

(26) In how many ways all these balls can be distributed such that no pot is empty if all balls are identical but all boxes are different? (a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 9 (d) 27

(27) In how many ways all these balls can be distributed such that no pot is empty if all balls are identical but all boxes are also identical? (a) 1 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 11

(28) In an entrance examination there are two papers each of 50 marks and one paper of 100 marks. A candidate will qualify to take admission if he secures at least 150 marks in aggregate, securing at least 50 marks in the last paper. In how many ways different ways can he secure exactly 150 marks? (a) 1326 (b) (c) (d) None of these

(29) In a road network as drawn below, the vertices in the middle horizontal line are labelled 1, 4, 7. The vertices in the upper row are labelled 2, 5, 8 and the vertices in the lower row 3, 6, 9 How many paths from 1 to 13 exist such that vertices are visited only in increasing order?

(a) 56

(b) 153

(c)

(d)

(30) The figure below shows the plan of a town. Vinay rides his bicycle from house at A to office at B, taking the shortest Then the number of shortest paths that he can choose is:

(a) 168

(b) 336

(c) 208

(d) 308