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Grade 11Algebra

Q. Three ladies have each brought a child for admission to a school. The head of the school wishes to interview the six people one by one, taking care that no child is interviewed before its mother. The number of ways of doing this is (A) 6 (B) 36 (C) 72 (D)90

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16 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Ramesh V
16 Years ago

Let tha people be L1S1L2S2L3S3

each son comes after his mother

taking son,mother as set , there are 3 sets whihc can be arranged in 3! ways

answer : 6 ways

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regards

Ramesh

Profile image of rajat agarwal
16 Years ago

but answer is 90 ways