document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1183760>Question 1183760</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A modern town is laid out in square blocks.  By how many different routes can we go from the corner of East 1st Street and North 1st Avenue <BR>\n" );
document.write( "to the corner of East 7th Street and North 5th avenue, each route being of the smallest possible length, that is, 10 blocks?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We need to go 6 blocks east and 4 blocks north, in any order.  The number of ways we can do that is the number of ways we can arrange the letters EEEEEENNNN.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "By a well-known counting principle, the number of ways we can do that is<br><BR>\n" );
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