Permutations and Combinations 3 Question 3

3. Consider three boxes, each containing 10 balls labelled 1,2,,10. Suppose one ball is randomly drawn from each of the boxes. Denote by ni, the label of the ball drawn from the i th box, (i=1,2,3). Then, the number of ways in which the balls can be chosen such that n1<n2<n3 is

(2019 Main, 12 Jan I)

(a) 82

(b) 120

(c) 240

(d) 164

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Answer:

Correct Answer: 3. (b)

Solution:

  1. Given there are three boxes, each containing 10 balls labelled 1, 2, 3, … , 10 .

Now, one ball is randomly drawn from each boxes, and ni denote the label of the ball drawn from the i th box, (i=1,2,3).

Then, the number of ways in which the balls can be chosen such that n1<n2<n3 is same as selection of 3 different numbers from numbers 1,2,3,,10=10C3 =120.



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