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AP EAMCET · Maths · Permutation Combination

A person invites 8 guests to a dinner and places 5 of them at one table and the remaining 3 at another, both the tables being round. The number of ways in which the guests can be arranged is

  1. A 40320
  2. B 2688
  3. C 8064
  4. D 13440
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(B) 2688

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The number of ways to select 5 person out of 8 is \({ }^8 C_5\). Now, number of ways to place 5 on round table is 4 ! and number of ways to place 3 on round table is 2 !. So, required number of ways \(={ }^8 C_5 \times 4 ! \times 2 !\)…