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JEE Main 2026Permutation Combination Question with Solution

JEE Main 2026 (05 April Shift 2)

Question

A box contains blue, yellow and red balls. The number of ways, of drawing balls containing at least two balls of each colour, is :

Choose an option

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Correct answer
A

Step-by-step explanation

Let , , and be the number of blue, yellow, and red balls drawn respectively.

We are given with , , and .

The possible combinations for are:
Case 1:
Case 2:
Case 3:
Case 4:
Case 5:
Case 6:

The number of ways for each case is calculated as follows:
Case 1:
Case 2:
Case 3:
Case 4:
Case 5:
Case 6:

Total number of ways

Answer:

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