Let the boys sit around the round table.
Number of arrangements = (4 - 1)! =3! = 6 ...(i)
There are 4 seats for the girls and there are 3 girls.
Number of arrangements = ...(ii)
∴ Total number of permutations when no two girls are together = 6 x 24 = 144
(a) In how many ways can a girl make a garland with 8 flowers?
(b) In how many ways can a girl make a necklace with 4 red, 3 green and 2 blue beads?
(a) INDIA (b) ARRANGE (c) EXERCISES
(d) SERIES (e) INTERMEDIATE
Find the number of arrangements of the letters of word ‘INDEPENDENCE’. How many of these words:
(a) start with P? (b) the vowels always occur together?
(c) the vowels never occur together?
(d) begin with I and end with P?
How many words can be formed using the letters of word ‘PARALLEL’ so that the L’s
(a) come together (b) do not come together ?
(a) How many of them begin with C?
(b) How many begin with T?
(c) In how many of these vowels occur together?