Computer Science and Information Technology
2026 · Paper 1
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Question 4
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A student needs to enroll for a minimum of 60 credits. A student cannot enroll for more than 70 credits. The credits are divided among project and three distinct sets of courses namely, core courses, specialization courses, and elective courses. It is compulsory for a student to enroll for exactly 15 credits of core courses and exactly 20 credits of project. In addition, a student has to enroll for a minimum of 10 credits of specialization courses. The maximum credits of elective courses that a student can enroll for is ______
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‘When the teacher is in the room, all students stand silently.’
If the above statement is true, which one of the following statements is not necessarily true?
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Combinatorics deals with problems involving counting. For example, “How many distinct arrangements of N distinct objects in M spaces on a circle are possible?” is a typical problem in combinatorics. This kind of counting is sometimes used in the modeling of several physical phenomena. Often, in such models, the different combinatorial possibilities are assigned probability values. Assigning probabilities enables the computation of the average values of physical quantities.
Consider the following statements:
P: Combinatorics is always invoked in the modeling of physical phenomena.
Q: Modeling some physical phenomena involves assigning probabilities to combinatorial possibilities in order to compute average values of physical quantities.
Based on the passage above, what can be inferred about statements P and Q?
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