document.write( "Question 1073173: what is the soletion of in how many ways 7 man and 7 womenv can be seateted around table such that no two women can sit tgether \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #688600 by Edwin McCravy(20056)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! \r\n" ); document.write( "The only way is to seat them alternating men and women,\r\n" ); document.write( "so no two men sit together either. \r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Seat the 7 men first.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "It would be 7! ways to seat the men, but we must divide\r\n" ); document.write( "by 7 since the table and people are assumed to be sitting on \r\n" ); document.write( "a turntable that can be rotated 7 different ways. Therefore \r\n" ); document.write( "7! counts the number 7 times too many, so there are 7!/7 or \r\n" ); document.write( "6! ways to seat the men.\r\n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " M \r\n" ); document.write( " M M\r\n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( " M M\r\n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( " M M\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Now for each of those 6! circular permutations, there\r\n" ); document.write( "are 7 chairs in which to seat the 7 women. So they\r\n" ); document.write( "can be seated any of 7! ways.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " W M W\r\n" ); document.write( " M M\r\n" ); document.write( " W W\r\n" ); document.write( " M M\r\n" ); document.write( " W W \r\n" ); document.write( " M W M\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "So the answer is 6!7! = 3628800 ways.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Edwin\n" ); document.write( " |