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CAT Previous Year Paper | CAT Quant Questions | Question 21

CAT 2023 Quant was dominated by Algebra followed by Arithmetic. In Arithmetic, the questions were dominated by topics like Speed-time-distance, Mixture and Alligations. This year, there was a surprise. The questions from Geometry were relatively on the lower side as compared to the previous years. There were 8 TITA Qs this year. Overall this section was at a medium level of difficulty.

Question 21 : The number of all natural numbers up to 1000 with non-repeating digits is

  1. 585
  2. 504
  3. 648
  4. 738

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Explanatory Answer

Single digit numbers with non-repeating digits = 9
(The unit’s digit is non-zero)
Two digit numbers with non-repeating digits = 9 × 9
(The tenth’s digit is non-zero and the unit digit can be any digit except the tenth’s digit.)
Three digit numbers with non-repeating digits = 9 × 9 × 8
(The hundred’s digit is non-zero and the tenth’s digit can be any digit except the hundred’s digit and the unit digit can be any digit except the tenth’s digit.)
So, totally there are (9 + 9 × 9 + 9 × 9 × 8) = 738 natural numbers up to 1000 with non-repeating digits.


The question is " The number of all natural numbers up to 1000 with non-repeating digits is "

Hence, the answer is '738'

Choice D is the correct answer.

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