Seating Six Friends
6 friends (Andy, Bandy, Candy, Dandy, Endy and Fandy) are out to dinner. They will be seated in a circular table (with 6 seats). How many ways are there to seat them?
Details and assumptions
Rotations of the table will be considered the same way, but reflections will be considered different.
The answer is 120.
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1 solution
The number of arrangements of 'n' distinct objects in a circle is given by (n-1)!
Hence, all 6 friends can be set in (6-1)!=120 ways.