Number of ways in which a lawn-tennis mixed double be made from seven married couples if no husband and wife play in the same set is
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a
240
b
420
c
720
d
None of these
answer is B.
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We first select 2 men out of 7 in 7C2 ways. Now we exclude the wives of these two selected men and so select2ladies from remaining 5 ladies in 5C2 ways. Let A, B be two men and X, Y be the ladies playing in one set. Then we can have(i) A and X plying against B and Y. (ii) A and Y playing against B and X.Then the total number of ways is 7C2×5C2×2=21×10×2=420