document.write( "Question 895160: 3 ladies and 3 gents can be seated at a round table sothat any two and only two of ladies sit together number of ways is? \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "When the problem says \"round table\", that means it's as if the table\r\n" );
document.write( "and people were on a turntable floor.  So there are only these two\r\n" );
document.write( "seating schemes where exactly 2 women sit together.\r\n" );
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document.write( "   W   W                W   W\r\n" );
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document.write( " M       M            M       M\r\n" );
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document.write( "   M   W                W   M\r\n" );
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document.write( "For each of these two arrangments there are 3! ways to place the women\r\n" );
document.write( "and 3! ways to place the men.  Thats 3!*3! = 6*6 = 36 ways for each.\r\n" );
document.write( "Since there are 2 seating schemes above, we double that number.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer = 2*36 = 72\r\n" );
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