SOLUTION: In how many ways can 3 students be seated in a row of 3 chairs if Jack insists on sitting in the first chair?

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Question 1180325: In how many ways can 3 students be seated in a row of 3 chairs if Jack insists on sitting in the first chair?
Answer by ikleyn(52778) About Me  (Show Source):
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Then you have only 2 (two) students to permute . . . 


So the number of all possible permutations is 2.    ANSWER

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On Permutations,  see introductory lessons
    - Introduction to Permutations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Permutations
    - Simple and simplest problems on permutations
    - Special type permutations problems
    - Problems on Permutations with restrictions
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on Permutations and Combinations
in this site.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
    - ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic  "Combinatorics: Combinations and permutations".


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