SOLUTION: There are 10 people in a meeting. In how many ways can you arrange your participants (including you) around a conference table if 4 people insist on sitting beside each other?

Question 1178311: There are 10 people in a meeting. In how many ways can you arrange your participants (including you) around a conference table if 4 people insist on sitting beside each other?
Answer by ikleyn(52778)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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There are 10 people in a meeting. In how many ways can you arrange your participants (including you)
around a conference table if 4 people insist on sitting next to each other?
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ANSWER.     6!*4! = 6*5*4*3*2*1*(4*3*2*1) = 17280 ways.

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