document.write( "Question 887964: There are four gentleman and three ladies who are to dine at a round table. In how many ways can they seat themselves so that no two ladies are together? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Since this is a round table, all 7 of these ways of placing\r\n" );
document.write( "the men and the women below are considered the same.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "[Don't ask me why, for they all seem different to me.  I \r\n" );
document.write( "wouldn't consider them the same myself, unless the chairs\r\n" );
document.write( "and the table were all on top of a big turntable in the\r\n" );
document.write( "floor. But I just happen to know that when a math problem \r\n" );
document.write( "talks about a round table, it means that the rotations \r\n" );
document.write( "are all considered to be the same seating arrangement. \r\n" );
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document.write( "We can arrange the 4 men 4! ways and the 3 women 3! ways.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer: 4!*3! = 24*6 = 144 ways.\r\n" );
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