Quiz Discussion

The number of triangles that can be formed by choosing the vertices from a set of 12 points, seven of which lie on the same straight line, is

• 1]

  185

• 2]

  175

• 3]

  115

• 4]

  105

A basketball team of 5 players is to be selected from a group of 10 men and 8 women players. A volley ball team of 6 players is to be selected from a group of 8 men and 7 women players. Find the difference in the number of ways in which both the teams are selected, given that each team has only 2 female players.

• 1]

  1890

• 2]

  1920

• 3]

  1950

• 4]

  1990

A teacher has to choose the maximum different groups of three students from a total of six students. Of these groups, in how many groups there will be included in a particular student?

• 1]

  12

• 2]

  10

• 3]

  8

• 4]

  6

A polygon has 44 diagonals. What is the number of its sides?

• 1]

  7

• 2]

  8

• 3]

  9

• 4]

  11

One card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is not a face card (Jack, Queen and King only)?

• 1]

  5/13

• 2]

  10/13

• 3]

  1/13

• 4]

  1/26

There are seven pairs of black shoes and five pairs of white shoes. They are all put into a box and shoes are drawn one at a time. To ensure that at least one pair of black shoes are taken out, what is the number of shoes required to be drawn out?

• 1]

  12

• 2]

  13

• 3]

  17

• 4]

  18

If A, B and C are mutually exclusive and exhaustive events of a random experiment such that P(B)=3/2​P(A) and P(C)=1/2​P(B), then P(A∪C)=

• 1]

  3/13

• 2]

  6/13

• 3]

  7/13

• 4]

  10/13

In how many ways can a cricketer can score 200 runs with fours and sixes only?

• 1]

  13

• 2]

  19

• 3]

  16

• 4]

  17

Two variants of the CAT paper are to be given to 12 students. In how many ways can the students be placed in two rows of six each so that there should be no identical variants side by side and that the students sitting one behind the other should have the same variant. Find the number of ways this can be done

• 1]

  2 x ¹²C₆ x (6!)²

• 2]

  2 x 6! x 6!

• 3]

  2 x ¹²C₆ x 6!

• 4]

  None of these

In a group of 6 boys and 4 girls, four children are to be selected. In how many different ways can they be selected such that at least one boy should be there?

• 1]

  159

• 2]

  194

• 3]

  205

• 4]

  209