Question

8. The Last Supper

Answer 1

The number of possible seats is an illustration of permutation

There are 1728 possible sitting arrangements

How to determine the number of seats

From the question, we have the following highlights:

• Chris can only take 1 seat (i.e. the central seat)
• Jo can take 2 seats (i.e. the seats adjacent the central seat)
• Alex, Barb and Dave can take 3! number of seats
• Eddie, Fred, and Gareth can take 3! number of seats on the right of Chris.
• The remaining 4 adults do not have preference, then they can seat in 4! ways

So, the number of sitting arrangement is:

$n = 1 * 2 * 3! * 3! * 4!$

Evaluate the product

$n = 1728$

Hence, there are 1728 possible sitting arrangements

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