NinetynineCAT Permutations & Probability questions 21 since 2017
Across the 24 CAT papers from 2017 to 2025, Permutations & Probability was asked 21 times, in 17 of the 24 papers. CAT asks about 0.9 Permutations & Probability questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 0.7 per paper, against 0.8 in the four years before (steady). Below is how often it appeared each year, the ideas CAT keeps reusing, and every question with its answer.
Key facts
- Across the 24 CAT papers from 2017 to 2025, Permutations & Probability was asked 21 times, in 17 of the 24 papers.
- Permutations & Probability is the 12th most-asked of the 16 CAT QA topics, with 3.4% of all QA questions since 2017.
- CAT asks about 0.9 Permutations & Probability questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 0.7 per paper, against 0.8 in the four years before (steady).
- The heaviest year for Permutations & Probability was CAT 2017, with 5 questions across 2 slots.
Counted from all 24 CAT papers 2017–2025 (1,830 questions), one topic tag per question. How we tag.
How many Permutations & Probability questions come in CAT each year?
| Year | Questions | Slots that year | Per slot |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAT 2017 | 5 | 2 | 2.5 |
| CAT 2018 | 2 | 2 | 1.0 |
| CAT 2019 | 1 | 2 | 0.5 |
| CAT 2020 | 2 | 3 | 0.7 |
| CAT 2021 | 3 | 3 | 1.0 |
| CAT 2022 | 2 | 3 | 0.7 |
| CAT 2023 | 1 | 3 | 0.3 |
| CAT 2024 | 4 | 3 | 1.3 |
| CAT 2025 | 1 | 3 | 0.3 |
Permutations & Probability ideas CAT has repeated
- Counting numbers with distinct digits under conditions 5 questions, 2020–2024
- Integer solutions of x + y + z = n with lower or upper bounds 5 questions, 2017–2022
All Permutations & Probability questions, newest first
CAT 2025
- CAT 2025 Slot 1 · QA Q2 A cafeteria offers 5 types of sandwiches. Moreover, for each…
CAT 2024
- CAT 2024 Slot 3 · QA Q14 The number of all positive integers up to 500 with…
- CAT 2024 Slot 2 · QA Q11 P, Q, R and S are four towns. One can travel between P and Q…
- CAT 2024 Slot 1 · QA Q7 Consider two sets A=2,3,5,7,11,13 and B=1,8,27 . Let f be a…
- CAT 2024 Slot 1 · QA Q9 The sum of all four-digit numbers that can be formed with…
CAT 2023
- CAT 2023 Slot 1 · QA Q21 The number of all natural numbers up to 1000 with…
CAT 2022
- CAT 2022 Slot 2 · QA Q12 The number of integers greater than 2000 that can be formed…
- CAT 2022 Slot 1 · QA Q2 The number of ways of distributing 20 identical balloons…
CAT 2021
- CAT 2021 Slot 3 · QA Q4 A four-digit number is formed by using only the digits 1, 2…
- CAT 2021 Slot 2 · QA Q1 The number of ways of distributing 15 identical balloons, 6… answer only
- CAT 2021 Slot 1 · QA Q13 The number of groups of three or more distinct numbers that… answer only
CAT 2020
- CAT 2020 Slot 3 · QA Q16 How many integers in the set 100, 101, 102, ..., 999 have at… answer only
- CAT 2020 Slot 2 · QA Q26 How many 4-digit numbers, each greater than 1000 and each… answer only
CAT 2019
- CAT 2019 Slot 1 · QA Q3 With rectangular axes of coordinates, the number of paths… answer only
CAT 2018
- CAT 2018 Slot 2 · QA Q10 In a tournament, there are 43 junior level and 51 senior… answer only
- CAT 2018 Slot 1 · QA Q14 How many numbers with two or more digits can be formed with… answer only
CAT 2017
- CAT 2017 Slot 2 · QA Q29 In how many ways can 8 identical pens be distributed among… answer only
- CAT 2017 Slot 2 · QA Q30 How many four digit numbers, which are divisible by 6, can… answer only
- CAT 2017 Slot 1 · QA Q25 The number of solutions (x, y, z) to the equation x – y – z… answer only
- CAT 2017 Slot 1 · QA Q29 Let AB, CD, EF, GH, and JK be five diameters of a circle… answer only
- CAT 2017 Slot 1 · QA Q32 In how many ways can 7 identical erasers be distributed… answer only
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