document.write( "Question 1200684: A company has 11 software engineers and 7 civil engineers. In how many ways can they be seated in a row so that no two of the civil engineers will sit together? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "A company has 11 software engineers and 7 civil engineers. In how many ways
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document.write( "Under given conditions, each civil engineer either can be seated between two \r\n" );
document.write( "software engineers or at the extreme left or extreme right position from software engineers.\r\n" );
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document.write( "In all, there are 11+1 = 12 possible positions, where 7 civil engineers can be seated.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The number of such possible allowed placements is  \r\n" );
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document.write( "     =  = 792.    ANSWER\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "For the purposes of this problem, the engineers are considered as undistinguishable objects
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