Five letters are placed at random in five addressed envelopes. The probability that all the letters are not dispatched in the respective right envelopes is

  • A
    $\frac{1}{120}$
  • B
    $\frac{1}{5}$
  • C
    $\frac{119}{120}$
  • D
    $\frac{4}{5}$

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There are five students $S_1, S_2, S_3, S_4$ and $S_5$ in a music class and for them there are five seats $R_1, R_2, R_3, R_4$ and $R_5$ arranged in a row,where initially the seat $R_i$ is allotted to the student $S_i$,$i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5$. But,on the examination day,the five students are randomly allotted the five seats.
$(1)$ The probability that,on the examination day,the student $S_1$ gets the previously allotted seat $R_1$,and $NONE$ of the remaining students gets the seat previously allotted to him/her is
$(A)$ $\frac{3}{40}$ $(B)$ $\frac{1}{8}$ $(C)$ $\frac{7}{40}$ $(D)$ $\frac{1}{5}$
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$(A)$ $\frac{1}{15}$ $(B)$ $\frac{1}{10}$ $(C)$ $\frac{7}{60}$ $(D)$ $\frac{1}{5}$

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$150$ students took admission. In how many ways can they be divided into three equal sections $A, B,$ and $C$?

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