Seating arrangementsCAT Previous-Year Questions

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Seating arrangements · CAT PYQs

CAT 2000 · QA
Q1.

One red flag, three white flags and two blue flags are arranged in a line such that,

(A) no two adjacent flags are of the same colour.
(B) the flags at the two ends of the line are of different colours.

In how many different ways can the flags be arranged?

CAT 1997 · QA
Passage / Data

Answer the next 3 questions based on the following information.

There are 60 students in a class. These students are divided into three groups A, B and C of 15, 20 and 25 students each. The groups A and C are combined to form group D.

Q2.

In how many ways can eight directors, the vice chairman and chairman of a firm be seated at a round table, if the chairman has to sit between the vice chairman and a director?