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A multinational company classifies employees into two classes: Management employees and Non-management employees. It assigns an alphanumeric ID to each of its employees. All the IDs have 4 letters followed by 3 digits. In each ID the letters have to be in alphabetical order and the digits have to be in descending order. The letters allowed are K, X, T, M, B and the numbers allowed are 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9. In an alphanumeric ID, no letter or digit is repeated. Two employees of different classes can have the same ID, but the same is not true for employees of the same class. What is the maximum number of employees that the multinational company can have?
  • a)
    200
  • b)
    100
  • c)
    120
  • d)
    240
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?
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A multinational company classifies employees into two classes: Managem...
Four out of five letters can be selected in 5C4 ways.
The four letters can be arranged alphabetically in only 1 way.
Number of ways of selecting 3 out of 6 digits = 6C3
There is only one way of arranging these three numbers in descending order.
Total number of IDs that can be made for each department = 5C4 x 6C3= 100
The company can have (2 x 100 =) 200 employees. Hence, option 1.
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A multinational company classifies employees into two classes: Managem...
4 letter out of BKMTX, 3 numbers out of 134579.
Letters: 5C4, numbers: 6C3.
No additional permutations, since only one order (alphabetical, descending) is allowed. This effectively means that only one permutation of every possible combination is allowed.
Answer = 5C4*6C3*2, since both classes can have 5C4*6C3 IDs each.
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A multinational company classifies employees into two classes: Managem...
Four out of five letters can be selected in 5C4 ways.
The four letters can be arranged alphabetically in only 1 way.
Number of ways of selecting 3 out of 6 digits = 6C3
There is only one way of arranging these three numbers in descending order.
Total number of IDs that can be made for each department = 5C4 x 6C3= 100
The company can have (2 x 100 =) 200 employees. Hence, option 1.
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