The number of ways of distributing 8 identical balls in 3 distinct boxes so that none of the boxes is empty is

A student is to answer 10 out of 13 questions in an examination such that he must choose at least 4 from the first five questions. The number of choices available to him is

The number of ways in which 6 men and 5 women can dine at a round table if no two women are to sit together is given by

If $${}^n{C_r}$$ denotes the number of combination of n things taken r at a time, then the expression $$\,{}^n{C_{r + 1}} + {}^n{C_{r - 1}} + 2\, \times \,{}^n{C_r}$$ equals