Permutation and CombinationHard

Question

A box contains 6 balls which may be all of different colours or three each of two colours or two each of three different colours. The number of ways of selecting 3 balls from the box (if ball of same colour are identical), is:

Options

A.60
B.31
C.30
D.None

Solution

Case -I  If all are different then no. of ways is
= 6C3 = 20
Case-II  If three each of two colours, then
combination is
        2     1   0   →     3!
        1    1    1    →     1!       = 3! + 1! = 7ways
Case-III If two each of three colours, then
combination is
        3    0    →  2!
        2    1     → 2!        = 2! + 2! = 4 ways
Hence required no.is =  20 + 7 + 4 = 31

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