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Permutation & Combination Shortcuts

This document provides examples and formulas for calculating permutations and combinations. It defines factorial notation and provides examples of calculating factorials. It then defines permutation as arrangements of a given number of things taken a certain number at a time. Formulas are given for calculating the number of permutations of n things taken r at a time. Several examples are worked out, such as the number of permutations of the word "HOUSE" and the word "COMPUTER". The document concludes by working through an example calculating the number of permutations of the word "KOLKATA" which contains repeated letters.

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Permutation & Combination Shortcuts

This document provides examples and formulas for calculating permutations and combinations. It defines factorial notation and provides examples of calculating factorials. It then defines permutation as arrangements of a given number of things taken a certain number at a time. Formulas are given for calculating the number of permutations of n things taken r at a time. Several examples are worked out, such as the number of permutations of the word "HOUSE" and the word "COMPUTER". The document concludes by working through an example calculating the number of permutations of the word "KOLKATA" which contains repeated letters.

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SHORTCUTS ON PERMUTATION AND

COMBINATION
Some Basic & General Rule & Formula: This method of
Permutation & combination is totally related to the math calculation and it is
very important for all bank examinations.
Factorial Notation: Lets consider that n be a positive integer. Then,
Factorial n, denoted by n or n! And can be defined as follow:
n! = n (n 1 ) ( n 2 ) .3.2.1.
For Example: 5! = ( 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 ) = 120;
For Example: 4! = (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 ) = 24;
For Example: 3 = ( 1 x 2 x 3 ) = 6;

You should know that 1! = 1


And also the 0! = 1

Permutation: Arrangements of a given number or any things by taking all or


some at a time is stands for permutation.
All permutation represented by letter a, b, c by taking two at a time are ( ab,
ba, ac, ca, bc, cb )
While All permutations represented by letters a, b, c, taking all at a time are (
abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba ).
No. of Permutations: No. of all permutations of n things, taken r as a time,
can be given as:
n

Formula1:

= n (n 1) ( n 2 )(n r + 1 ) = n! / (n r ) !

p = 6! / 6-2= (6 x 5) = 30.
Example: p 3 = (7 x 6 x 5) = 210.
Example:

Important Note: No. of all arrangement that is n things, we can take all at a
time = n!
For Example: 6! / 2! = 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 / 1 x 2 = 360.
Now we learn what is permutation and related formula with it. Now for more
practice we are going to solve some examples of permutation with using
maths shortcuts.

Question1. HOUSE Word can be arranged in how many Different ways?


Solution: As we all know that word HOUSE contains 5 letters.
Therefore required No. of word using formula is
5p5 = 5! = (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 ) = 120.

Question2. The words COMPUTER can be arranged in How many


different ways ?

Sol. We know that the word COMPUTER contains 7 letters. In this letter no
repeated word so we can find required no. of word using formula:
7p7 = 7! / ( 7 7)! = ( 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 ) = 5040.

Question3. KOLKATA word can arranged in how many different ways?


Sol. The Total No. of letter in this word is 7. We also w=know that repeated
word occurred so we divided this by repeated word. Repeated is k two time
and A two time.
Therefore required No. of word using formula: 7p7 / 2p2 x 2p2
= 7!/(7 7 )! / 2!(2 2)! x 2!(2 2)! = ( 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 )
= 1260.

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