Permutations And Combinations Ques 60

  1. There are four balls of different colours and four boxes of colours, same as those of the balls. The number of ways in which the balls, one each in a box, could be placed such that a ball does not go to a box of its own colour is…. .

(1992, 2M)

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Answer:

Correct Answer: 60.(9)

Solution:

Formula:

Dearrangement :

  1. The number of ways in which the ball does not go its own colour box $=4 ! \quad (1-\frac{1}{1 !}+\frac{1}{2 !}-\frac{1}{3 !}+\frac{1}{4 !})$

$ =4 ! (\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{6}+\frac{1}{24}=24 \quad \frac{12-4+1}{24})=9 $



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