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COMEDK · Maths · 4. Permutation Combination

A shopkeeper sells three varieties of fruit juice. He has a large number of bottles of same size of each variety. The number of different ways of displaying all the three varieties on the shelf with 5 places in a row and each display must have at least one bottle of each variety is

  1. A \(60\)
  2. B \(150\)
  3. C \(90\)
  4. D \(120\)
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(B) \(150\)

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Let the three varieties of fruit juice be \(A\), \(B\), and \(C\). We need to fill 5 places in a row such that each variety appears at least once. This is equivalent to finding the number of onto functions from a set of 5 elements to a set of 3 elements. The total number of ways…