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Syllabus: Combinatorics: Counting, Recurrence relations, Generating functions.

$$\scriptsize{\overset{{\large{\textbf{Mark Distribution in Previous GATE}}}}{\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}\hline
\textbf{Year}& \textbf{2022} & \textbf{2021-1}&\textbf{2021-2}&\textbf{2020}&\textbf{2019}&\textbf{2018}&\textbf{2017-1}&\textbf{2017-2}&\textbf{2016-1}&\textbf{2016-2}&\textbf{Minimum}&\textbf{Average}&\textbf{Maximum}
\\\hline\textbf{1 Mark Count} & 1&1&0&0&2&1&0&0&1&0&0&0.6&2
\\\hline\textbf{2 Marks Count} & 2 &0&1&1&0&1&0&1&2&1&0&0.9&2
\\\hline\textbf{Total Marks} & 5 &1&2&2&2&3&0&2&5&2&0&2.4&5\\\hline
\end{array}}}$$

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