SOLUTION: A necklace can be made using 5 different colors of bead. In how many ways can the beads be arranged in a circle if the necklace must start and end with the same color?

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Question 1202208: A necklace can be made using 5 different colors of bead. In how many ways can the beads be arranged in a circle if the necklace must start and end with the same color?
Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, ikleyn:
Answer by greenestamps(13200) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!


...and here the fourth (and apparently the last) problem in a row that is so poorly stated that it is impossible to know the answer.

We know there are 5 different colors of beads that can be used, but we don't know how many beads are on the necklace. It can't be just 5 beads (1 of each color), because the necklace must start and end with the same color.

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Answer by ikleyn(52787) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Soup of words.     Inedible.

Each word,  taken separately,  is a proper English word;
but taken altogether,  they produce nonsense.


These "Math composers" will create a generation of students / (their followers)
who will think that Math is the way to deceive others.

And the next generation after them just will not think -
they will be confident in it . . .