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Question: How many three letter words (with or without meaning) can be formed out of the letters of the word LOGARITHMS if repetition of letters is not allowed? Answer: Number of letters in the word LOGARITHMS is 10. The three letter words..

Question 1 - Question: Answer: As n represents all positive integers, we have Multiplying the above terms of both sides respectively, we get Multiplying both sides of inequality by n!, we g..

Harmonic Mean (H.M.) - If three quantities are in harmonic progression, then the middle quantity is called the harmonic mean between the other two. Example: 1/3, 1/7, 1/11 are in H.P., then 1/7 is the middle term. Hence 1/7 is the harmonic mean between 1/3 and 1/1..

If three quantities are in harmonic progression, then the middle quantity is called the harmonic mean between the other two. Example: 1/3, 1/7, 1/11 are in H.P., then 1/7 is the middle term. Hence 1/7 is the harmonic mean between 1/3 and 1/1..

Let H be the harmonic mean between the quantities a and b. ..

To insert n Harmonic Means between two given quantities - Let a and b be two given quantities. It is required to insert n harmonic means h 1 , h 2 , h 3 ,....h n between the quantities a and b. Let d = common difference of the A.P. Hence h 1 , h..

Question: Ten different letters of an alphabet are given. Words with five letters are formed from these given letters. Find the number of words which have atleast one letter repeated. Answer: Total number of 5 letter words from given 10 letters = 10 5 (if ..

Strictly speaking 0! has no meaning. But since n P n = n! we may understand 0! = ..

Question: How many words of different 4 letters can be formed out of 7 capital letters, 3 vowels and 8 consonants, if each word starts with a capital letter and contains at least one vowel? Answer: Any capital letter can be chosen as the first letter of each wor..

A square matrix A=[a i j ] n x n is called an identity or unit matrix if (2) a i j =1 for all i = j In other words a square matrix each of whose diagonal elements is unity and each of whose non-diagonal elements is equal to zero is called an identity or unit matrix. The identity ..