Five Distinct balls needs to be placed in three boxes

Question :- Five balls needs to be placed in three boxes. Each box can hold all the five balls. In how many ways can the balls be placed in the boxes if no box can be empty and all balls and boxes are different Please Help to solve this type of division and distribution combination sums I approached...

Grouping and selecting

Hi, I got this question from the Magoosh Blog, and the answer to the question[Answer in the last] is Theoretically correct, But I fail to understand where my reasoning has gone wrong Magaoosh Blog Question Link https://magoosh.com/gmat/2015/counting-practice-problems-for-the-gmat/ Question :- A ship...

Thanks Erickson for your Reply. It was a type typo error for the second question it is 4*5*2 = 40 ways For the question There 4 Apples in a Basket ,5 Mangoes in another basket ,2 Kiwis in another basket in a fruit shop and the fruits in the each kind baskets are identical 2)In how many ways I can se...

Perms and combination way to solve probability question

HiAll, Please help me in sorting my confusion Question There are 5 green balls, 4 red balls and 6 blue balls What is the probability of getting all three are different colour, when the three balls are picked one after the other without replacement Answer Method 1 :-Perms and comms way Total ways of ...

Data Sufficiency on Absolute value

The Question:- Is |x-6| >1 Statement 1 |x-4| >2 Statement 2 |x-7|>3 As per the Question stem The Distance from the point 6 to X to be greater than 1 , so when |x-6| is positive (right direction in number line),X can take any value greater than 7(x>7) and When |x-6| is Negative(left direction in numb...