craky wrote:
idiot wrote:
7 men can sit around a circular table in (7-1)! ways = 6!
[Logic: no: of asymmetric circular permutations of n objects is (n-1)!.]
Next, all you need to do is seat the women in the vacant 7 slots (b/w the men) which can be done in 7! ways
so, my ans is (6! x 7!) ways
Are you sure about that??
Why are women not considerad also circular???
Yes, the solution given above is correct. Think of it this way:
There are 7 men: Mr. A, Mr. B .....
and 7 women: Ms. A, Ms. B ....
14 seats around a circular table.
You seat the 7 women such that no two of them are together so they occupy 7 non-adjacent places in 6! ways. For the first woman who sits, each seat is identical. Once she sits, each seat becomes unique and when the next woman sits, she sits in a position relative to the first woman (e.g. 1 seat away on left, 3 seats away on right etc)
The 7 men have 7 unique seats to occupy. Each of the 7 seats are unique because they have a fixed relative position (e.g. between Ms. A and Ms. B or between Ms. C and Ms. B etc...). So the men can sit in 7! ways.
Total 6!*7! ways.
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51% (01:09) correct 
:- when you consider such circular scenarios, imagine a "passing-the-parcel" game in 
