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Q. There are $10$ persons including $3$ ladies. A committee of $4$ persons including at least one lady is to be formed. The number of ways of forming such a committee is

KEAMKEAM 2012Permutations and Combinations

Solution:

A committee of 4 persons can be formed in following ways,
(i) 3 persons and one ladies
$={ }^{7} C_{3} \times{ }^{3} C_{1}=35 \times 3=105$
(ii) 2 persons and two ladies
$={ }^{7} C_{2} \times{ }^{3} C_{2}=21 \times 3=63$
(iii) 1 person and three ladies
$={ }^{7} C_{1} \times{ }^{3} C_{3}=7 \times 1=7$
$\therefore $ Total number of ways
$=105+63+7=175$
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