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(Q). A fruit basket has n identical mangoes, n identical oranges & n distinct fruit. what is the number of ways in which n fruits can be selected from the fruit basket?
Solution:-

n nM O FFFF.........Fr fruits can be selected between mangoes & oranges in the following way: -mango orange 0 r 1 r-1 2 r-2 3 r-3 ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ r-1 1 r 0Hence r fruits can be selected between mangoes & oranges in (r + 1)ways.now n n M O FFFF.........Ftotal (r+1)
Mango & orangeDistinct fruitstotal number of waysnumber of fruitsnumber of waysof selectionnumber of fruitsnumber of waysof selectioncase(i)case(ii)case(iii)case(r)case(r+1)case(n)0 1 n1 2 n-12 3 n-2⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ r-1 r n-(r-1)r r+1 n-rn n+1 0

Hence total number of ways of selection of n fruits from fruit basket = 
= 1×ⁿCₙ + 2×ⁿCₙ₋₁ + 3×ⁿCₙ₋₂ + ………. + (r+1)×ⁿCᵣ + ……… + (n+1)×ⁿC₀
= 1×ⁿC₀ + 2×ⁿC₁ + 3×ⁿC₂ + ………… + (r+1)×ⁿCₙ₋ᵣ + ……… + (n+1)ⁿCₙ

= = = = = + = = = Answer