Question
Question: The number of different ways in which five ‘alike dashes’ and eight alike dots’ can be arranged usin...
The number of different ways in which five ‘alike dashes’ and eight alike dots’ can be arranged using only seven of these ‘dashes’ and ‘dots’ is:
A). 350 B) 120. C) 1287 D) None of these.
Explanation
Solution
Hint : Make the column first for dashes and second for dots and fill in such a way that the total is 7 and then use combination.
Complete step-by-step answer:
As we can see in the question that dashes and dots are alike.
We have to arrange these in such a way that their sum is always 7 for any row.
By hit and trial method we will be filling the table.
Therefore the table will look like this.
DashesDotsSum 52→7 43→7 34→7 25→7 16→7 07→7
Now, we have to make a combination for every row.