SOLUTION: If 5 students sit in a row, how many different arrangements are possible if two of them want to sit next to each other?
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Question 499006: If 5 students sit in a row, how many different arrangements are possible if two of them want to sit next to each other? Answer by chessace(471) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! First make them a unit and there are 4! = 24 ways to arrange.
Then multiply by 2 to cover the ways to arrange them within the unit.
48 ways total.
