Permutations and Combinations 3 Question 3
3. Consider three boxes, each containing 10 balls labelled . Suppose one ball is randomly drawn from each of the boxes. Denote by , the label of the ball drawn from the th box, . Then, the number of ways in which the balls can be chosen such that is
(2019 Main, 12 Jan I)
(a) 82
(b) 120
(c) 240
(d) 164
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Answer:
Correct Answer: 3. (b)
Solution:
- Given there are three boxes, each containing 10 balls labelled 1, 2, 3, … , 10 .
Now, one ball is randomly drawn from each boxes, and
Then, the number of ways in which the balls can be chosen such that