P & C!!!!!

Rekha married Shivram and had 4 sons. Varsha married Ajoy and had 4 sons. Both the couples had divorce and after that Shivram married Varsha while Ajoy married Rekha. They too had 3 sons each from their wedlocks. How many selections of 8 children can be made from the 14 childrnen so that each of them have equal number of sons in the selection.?

11 Answers

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virang1 Jhaveri ·

324 ways

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Abhishek Priyam ·

We need a lawyer... :P

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virang1 Jhaveri ·

Solution

Consider 4 Groups 1) RS 2)VA 3)AR 4)VS
Sons 4 4 3 3

Therefore 2 from each.
Therefore total ways = 4C2 * 4C2 * 3C2 * 3C2

= 2* 3 *2*3*3*3
6*6*9
= 36 *9
= 324

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Lokesh Verma ·

basically this boils down to chosing equal no from 4,4,3,3 (why?)

this is equal to

4x4x3x3 + 6x6x3x3 + 4x4

= 160+324 = 484

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Akand ·

wat d heck????? 8 kids each???????????? coooool

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Lokesh Verma ·

why cant they all have a casewhere they chose 1 child from each couple or 3 children from each couple?

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virang1 Jhaveri ·

No man i made the same mistake.

I took Combination instead of Permutation

Bhaiyya any tips for selection of P or C

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Lokesh Verma ·

akand...

thank god. u din say 2 wives.. wow ;)

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Akand ·

hehe a perfect example of mutual cooperation hehe [3][3][3]

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Surbhi Agrawal ·

@Nishant Bhaiya
bhaiya ... can u plz explain what have u done??

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Lokesh Verma ·

I did this in this way...

a bit long but see if it helps

let "a" kids from 1st couple, "b" from 2nd, "c" from 3rd and "d" from 4th.

hence

rekha has a+d kids
shivam has a+c kids

equate, d=c

similarly you get a=b=c=d

now i took cases when these are 1 or 2 or 3

and added for these 3 cases.

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