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If ¹³C₄ = ¹³Cₘ and m ≠ 4, what is m?

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Correct answer: 9

The governing concept is the symmetry property of combinations: ⁿCᵣ = ⁿCₙ₋ᵣ. It means that selecting r objects from n objects has the same count as leaving out n−r objects. Here n = 13 and r = 4, so the complementary lower index is 13 − 4 = 9. Therefore ¹³C₄ = ¹³C₉, and because the question explicitly says m ≠ 4, the required value is m = 9. Thus option B is correct. Option A gives ¹³C₈, whose complementary index is 5, not 4. Likewise, the complements of 10 and 11 are 3 and 2. The symmetry identity establishes the answer directly without expanding factorials, and the condition m ≠ 4 removes the original, obvious index.

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CombinationsSymmetryBinomial CoefficientPermutations And CombinationsMathematicsClass 11 Mcq

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