SOLUTION: Each of three colleges sent one male and one female student to a conference. How many was can the 6 students be seated in a row of 6 chairs if students from the same school must b

Question 37693: Each of three colleges sent one male and one female student to a conference. How many was can the 6 students be seated in a row of 6 chairs if students from the same school must be seated next to each other?
Answer by Alwayscheerful(414) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
To do this problem you need Combinations and Permutations.
You know for combinations, the order of the object doesn't matter. In this case, the order matters, so we will be using permutations.

n equals the number of choices. In this case, you have 6.
r equals the number of decisions yo make. In this case, you have 6.
Plug your numbers in!

is ALWAYS equal to 1

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Hope this helps!
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