SOLUTION: In how many different ways can five friends sit for a photograph of five chairs in a row?

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Question 1191837: In how many different ways can five friends sit for a photograph of five chairs in a row?
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In 5! = 5*4*3*2*1 = 120 different ways.     ANSWER

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This problem is on PERMUTATIONS.

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
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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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/complex/ALGEBRA-II-YOUR-ONLINE-TEXTBOOK.lesson

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