document.write( "Question 1183999: Valentina, Luke, Sally, Han and Mae are to be placed in a line in random order.\r
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Valentina, Luke, Sally, Han and Mae.
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document.write( "2 boys and 3 girls.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "They can be successfully placed in 2 basic ways, GGGBB or BBGGG\r\n" );
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document.write( "The girls can be arranged 3!=6 ways and the boys 2!=2 ways.\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's 2*6*2 = 24 ways out of 5!=120 ways to arrange the 5 every\r\n" );
document.write( "possible way.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer 24/120 = 1/5.\r\n" );
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