Aptitude - Permutation and Combination - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Permutation and Combination - General Questions (Q.No. 10)
10.
In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'DETAIL' be arranged in such a way that the vowels occupy only the odd positions?
32
48
36
60
120
Answer: Option
Explanation:

There are 6 letters in the given word, out of which there are 3 vowels and 3 consonants.

Let us mark these positions as under:

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Now, 3 vowels can be placed at any of the three places, marked 1, 3, 5.

Number of ways of arranging the vowels = 3P3 = 3! = 6.

Also, the 3 consonants can be arranged at the remaining 3 positions.

Number of ways of these arrangements = 3P3 = 3! = 6.

Total number of ways = (6 x 6) = 36.

Discussion:
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Soham said:   8 years ago
How many no of 7 digits can be formed with digit 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1 so that the odd digit always occupy odd place?

Can anyone answer this?

Uthaya said:   7 years ago
@GANESH.

Management has 10 letters, so 10! = 3628800.

the letters m,a,n,e has repetition. So 10!/2!2!2!2! = 3628800/(2*2*2*2) = 226800.

Kesav said:   1 decade ago
Can any one solve this problem for me?

1! + 2! + .... + 50!=?

a) 3.1035*10^64
b) 2.1021*10^65
c) 3.1035*10^63
d) 3.1035*10^62

Drushya said:   1 decade ago
@Athu.

Odd position means its like odd no.

For example : 1 2 3 4 5 6.

In this case odd position is :1 3 5 & even position : 2 4 6.

Divya said:   5 years ago
@Devdp.

As per the question, Vowels can occupy only the odd position. But you have placed the vowel in even position. Explain clearly.
(5)

Nikhil said:   1 decade ago
Vowel can even be put at the 7th place, not considered above, which will increase the number of possible arrangements. Please clarify?

Babar said:   9 years ago
How there are three vowels in the word vowels? logically we cannot consider the word "vowels" as a vowel. Can anyone explain, please?

Shivam said:   10 years ago
There are 4 possible position for the vowel so why 4C3 is not included in the solution for selecting 3 position out of 4 for vowels?

Omhari said:   8 years ago
In how many ways we can arrange the alphabets of the word 'ARRANGE' such that 2a and 2r do not come together?

Please solve this.

Balakrishna said:   10 years ago
Here they didn't mention about repetition allowed or not if we do this problem with repetition allowed the answer may be not 36.


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