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In a certain summer school program, there are five periods in the day. Each student takes English, Math, History, Science, and Science Lab. In how many orders can a student schedule be arranged given that Science lab must immediately follow the Science class?

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C. 100
D. 120
E. 135
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In a certain summer school program, there are five periods in the day. Each student takes English, Math, History, Science, and Science Lab. In how many orders can a student schedule be arranged given that Science lab must immediately follow the Science class?

A. 20
B. 24
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D. 120
E. 135
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Take the Science, and Science Lab classes and "glue" them together to get the super class "Science-Science-Lab"
This ensures that Science Lab immediately follows the Science class

So, we now have only 4 classes: English, Math, History and Science-Science-Lab
We can arrange n objects in n! ways.
So, we can arrange these 4 classes in 4! ways (i.e. 24 ways)

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In a certain summer school program, there are five periods in the day. Updated on: 04 Jul 2017, 06:39
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Science cannot be placed in last slot because it must be followed by Science Lab. So, science has 4 possibilities. Science lab has to be placed immediately after science so it has 1 possibility. English 3, and Math 2. So, by fundamental counting principle, total ways=4 x 1 x 3 x 2=4 x6=24
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In a certain summer school program, there are five periods in the day. Each student takes English, Math, History, Science, and Science Lab. In how many orders can a student schedule be arranged given that Science lab must immediately follow the Science class?

A. 20
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D. 120
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Science, and Science Lab are fixed, so we have 4 units:

{English}, {Math}, {History}, {Science, and Science Lab}

The number of arrangements = 4! = 24.

Answer: B.
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In a certain summer school program, there are five periods in the day. Each student takes English, Math, History, Science, and Science Lab. In how many orders can a student schedule be arranged given that Science lab must immediately follow the Science class?

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These arrangements are small enough that you could write them out.

There's only one way to put SC and SL together in each arrangement; then multiply.

SC - SL - 3 - 2 - 1 = 6

3 - SC - SL - 2 - 1 = 6

3 - 2 - SC - SL - 1 = 6

3 - 2 - 1 - SC - SL = 6

6 * 4 = 24

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Science cannot be placed in last slot because it must be followed by Science Lab. So, science has 4 possibilities. Science lab has to be placed immediately after science so it has 1 possibility. English 3, and Math 2. So, by fundamental counting principle, total ways=4 x 1 x 3 x 2=4 x6=24
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Hi,

IF the question said that 'the science and science lab class must always be together', then will the answer still remain the same?
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Science cannot be placed in last slot because it must be followed by Science Lab. So, science has 4 possibilities. Science lab has to be placed immediately after science so it has 1 possibility. English 3, and Math 2. So, by fundamental counting principle, total ways=4 x 1 x 3 x 2=4 x6=24
Hence, B


Hi,

IF the question said that 'the science and science lab class must always be together', then will the answer still remain the same?
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If it were: "in how many orders can a student schedule be arranged given that Science lab must immediately follow the Science class or vise-versa?", then the answer would be 4!*2, because Science, and Science Lab within their unit can be arranged in two ways: {Science, and Science Lab} and {Science Lab and Science}.
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Science cannot be placed in last slot because it must be followed by Science Lab. So, science has 4 possibilities. Science lab has to be placed immediately after science so it has 1 possibility. English 3, and Math 2. So, by fundamental counting principle, total ways=4 x 1 x 3 x 2=4 x6=24
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Thanks, that was my exact doubt.
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In a certain summer school program, there are five periods in the day. Each student takes English, Math, History, Science, and Science Lab. In how many orders can a student schedule be arranged given that Science lab must immediately follow the Science class?


We have 5 items, E M H S L. We need to find how many unique orders can be created from those 5 items while having L following right after S. We GLUE S and L together as 1 item. Then we have only 4 items in total E M H SL.

Ways to organize E M H SL = 4!
If the question says "Science and Science Lab must be adjacent to each other" then we will have to multiple 4! with 2 because S and L can switch places (therefore having a different order). In this question the positon of L is fixed after S. So we keep 4! as is. ANSWER IS 4!
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4! = 24
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In a certain summer school program, there are five periods in the day. Each student takes English, Math, History, Science, and Science Lab. In how many orders can a student schedule be arranged given that Science lab must immediately follow the Science class?

A. 20
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D. 120
E. 135
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We can group Science and Science Lab together as one class, so there are actually 4 classes to be arranged; the number of ways to arrange them is 4! = 24.

Answer: B
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Given: In a certain summer school program, there are five periods in the day. Each student takes English, Math, History, Science, and Science Lab.
Asked: In how many orders can a student schedule be arranged given that Science lab must immediately follow the Science class?

We have 4 options available
1. English
2. Math
3. History
4. Science and science lab

Number of ways to arrange the 4 options = 4! = 24

IMO B
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