Is the lady seated on the man's right or on his left? On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, John Doe wrote:
> okay I have this question in my Stats textbook, and it should be > pretty simple, but I can't figure it out.. > > Four married couple have purchased eight seats in a row for a > football game. In how many different ways can they be seated if > (a) each couple is to sit together? > > Well since there are eight seats that means two hafta be seated > together, so that means there are 4 ways of seating the first > couple, 3 the next, basically 4! which gives 24, but the answer in > the back is 384. I don't see where my logic is flawed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Burrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 56 Sebbins Pond Drive, Bedford, NH 03110 (603) 626-0816 [was: 184 Nashua Road, Bedford, NH 03110 (603) 471-7128] . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
