JEE Advanced 2026Paper 1
- Exam
- JEE Advanced
- Year
- 2026
- Paper
- Paper 1
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Chapter
- Permutation and Combination
JEE Advanced 2026 · Paper 1 · Mathematics · Permutation and Combination
The number of ways to distribute 10 identical red pens and 14...
The number of ways to distribute identical red pens and identical blue pens among four persons such that each person gets pens, is _____________.
Correct answer
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Step-by-step solution
Let and be the number of red and blue pens given to the -th person, where .
Given that each person receives exactly pens, we have:
Since the number of blue pens must be non-negative (), we get . Also, .
The total number of red pens is , so:
The number of ways to distribute the pens is the number of non-negative integer solutions to this equation subject to .
This is equivalent to finding the coefficient of in the expansion of .
Expanding both terms:
We need the coefficient of in the product .
Coefficient of
Answer:
Given that each person receives exactly pens, we have:
Since the number of blue pens must be non-negative (), we get . Also, .
The total number of red pens is , so:
The number of ways to distribute the pens is the number of non-negative integer solutions to this equation subject to .
This is equivalent to finding the coefficient of in the expansion of .
Expanding both terms:
We need the coefficient of in the product .
Coefficient of
Answer: