SOLUTION: A certain board game uses tokens made of transparent colored plastic. Each token looks like
where each of the four different regions is a different color: either red, green, yel
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Question 1201864: A certain board game uses tokens made of transparent colored plastic. Each token looks like
where each of the four different regions is a different color: either red, green, yellow, blue, or orange. How many different tokens of this type are possible? (Note: The white circle is a region.)
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A certain board game uses tokens made of transparent colored plastic. Each token looks like
where each of the four different regions is a different color: either red, green, yellow, blue, or orange.
How many different tokens of this type are possible? (Note: The white circle is a region.)
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The problem asks you: how many are there distinguishable circular permutations of 5 different objects (colored regions) ?
For the general case of n different objects the answer is = (n-1)!
For the given case with n= 5 different colored regions, the answer is
= = 1*2*3*4 = 4! = 24.
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- Persons sitting around a circular table
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