Worksheet of Permutation
Worksheet of Permutation
1. From among the 36 teachers in a school, one principal and one vice-principal are to be
appointed. In how many ways can this be done?
2. In how many ways can the letters of the word ‘FAILURE’ be arranged so that the consonants
may occupy only odd positions?
3. In how many ways can the letters of the word ‘STRANGE’ be arranged so that
(i) the vowels come together? (ii) the vowels never come together? (iii) the vowels occupy only
the odd places?
4. How many words can be formed from the letters of the word ‘SUNDAY’? How many of these
begin with D?
5. How many words can be formed out of the letters of the word ‘ORIENTAL’ so that the vowels
always occupy odd places?
6. Find the number of words formed by permuting all the letters of the following words :
(i) INDEPENDENCE (ii) INTERMEDIATE (iii) ARRANGE (iv) INDIA
7. In how many ways can the letters of the word ‘ALGEBRA’ be arranged without changing the
relative order of the vowels and consonants?
8. How many words can be formed with the letters of the word ‘UNIVERSITY,’ the vowels
remaining together?
9. Find the total number of arrangements of the letters in the expression a 3 b2 c4 when written at
full length.
10. How many words can be formed by arranging the letters of the word ‘MUMBAI’ so that all M’s
come together?
11. How many numbers can be formed with the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1 so that the odd digits always
occupy the odd places?
12. How many different signals can be made from 4 red, 2 white, and 3 green flags by arranging all
of them vertically on a flagstaff?
13. How many numbers of four digits can be formed with the digits 1, 3, 3, 0?
14. In how many ways can the letters of the word ‘ARRANGE’ be arranged so that the two R’s are
never together?
15. How many different numbers greater than 50000 can be formed with the digits 0, 1, 1, 5, 9?
16. How many words can be formed from the letters of the word ‘SERIES’, which start with S and
end with S?
17. How many permutations of the letters of the word ‘MADHUBANI’ do not begin with M but end
with I?
18. Find the number of numbers greater than a million that can be formed with the digits 2, 3, 0, 3,
4, 2, 3.
19. 20.