A necklace is to be made from 3 red, 2

Mohamed Mooney

Mohamed Mooney

Answered question

2022-06-22

A necklace is to be made from 3 red, 2 black and 2 white beads. How many possible configurations are there?

Answer & Explanation

Jake Mcpherson

Jake Mcpherson

Beginner2022-06-23Added 23 answers

Step 1
There are 7 beads. If all the beads were unique, there'd be 7 ! = 5040 ways to arrange the beads.
Step 2
However, there are three groups of unique beads and within each group the beads are the same. And so we need to divide by the ways those groups can be interchanged (so that we get rid of duplicates). This gives: 7 ! 3 ! 2 ! 2 ! = 5040 6 × 2 × 2 = 210

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