SOLUTION: Suppose you have six families consisting of a mother, a father, and a child. How many ways can the families sit in a row of 18 chairs such that members of each family are sitti

Question 158731: Suppose you have six families consisting of a mother, a father, and a child.
How many ways can the families sit in a row of 18 chairs such that members of each family are sitting together?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
How many ways can the families sit in a row of 18 chairs such that members of each family are sitting together?
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# of ways to arrange the families: 6! = 720
# of ways to arrange the members within each family 3! = 6
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Total # of arrangements: 720*6 = 4320
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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