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Combinatorics Question Help!!
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Mar 25, 2008 3:29 PM
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Combinatorics Question Help!!
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Mar 13, 2008 8:24 AM
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Well a student of mine came to me with the following question and I am completely helpless. can somone help??
Question:
I need to get the number of sequences of length 20 consisting of 8 X chars, 7 Y chars and 5 Z chars in which no two Z chars appear adjacently, and X,Y do not appear adjacently.
I tryed sevral ways but there are simply too much options to consider.
Thanks
Alisha.
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