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JEE Mains · Maths · STD 11 - 6. permutation and combination

The number of ways, \(16\) identical cubes, of which \(11\) are blue and rest are red, can be placed in a row so that between any two red cubes there should be at least \(2\) blue cubes, is

  1. A \(56\)
  2. B \(66\)
  3. C \(76\)
  4. D \(86\)
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(A) \(56\)

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\(x_{1}+x_{2}+x_{3}+x_{4}+x_{5}+x_{6}=11\) \(x_{1}, x_{6} \geq 0, \quad x_{2}, x_{3}, x_{4}, x_{5} \geq 2\) \(x_{2}=t_{1}+2\) \(x_{3}=t_{3}+2\) \(x_{4}=t_{4}+2\) \(x_{5}=t_{5}+2\) \(x_{1}, t_{2}, t_{3}, t_{4}, t_{5}, x_{6} \geq 0\) No. of solutions…
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