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JEE Advanced · Mathematics · 4. P&C

The letters of the word \(\mathrm{COCHIN}\) are permuted and all the permutations are arranged in an alphabetical order as in an English dictionary. The number of words that appear before the word \(\mathrm{COCHIN}\) is

  1. A 360
  2. B 192
  3. C 97
  4. D 48
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(C) 97

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In a word \(\mathrm{COCHIN}\), the second place can be filled in \({ }^4 C_1\) ways and the remaining four alphabets can be arranged in \(4 !\) ways in four different places. The next \(97^{\text {th }}\) word will be COCHIN.
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