CAT 2021 Slot 2 QA Q1 Permutations & Probability

Question 1 of the Quantitative Ability (QA) section, CAT 2021 Slot 2, with CAT's official answer.

The number of ways of distributing 15 identical balloons, 6 identical pencils and 3 identical erasers among 3 children, such that each child gets at least four balloons and one pencil, is

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