Five girls (Alexandra, Betsy, Catherine, Deyola and Emily) travel with one boy (Frank) to a math contest. They have four hotel rooms,numbered 1 through 4. Each room can hold up to two people, and the boy has to have a room to himself. How many different ways are there to assign the students to the rooms?
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the 5 girs have to be arranged in 2,2,1 manner. .so in this manner there can be (5C2×3C2)/2!=15 groups which is also total no of ways that the boy and the girls can be arranged into 4 groups. now simply the answer is 15×4!=360