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A family of two parents and four children is eating lunch at a rectangular table with 2 chairs on each side and one chair on each end. In how many ways can they be arranged if the two parents sit in the two end chairs?
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A family of two parents and four children is eating lunch at a rectangular table with 2 chairs on each side and one chair on each end. In how many ways can they be arranged if the two parents sit in the two end chairs?
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I believe this is combination as order does not matter. I used the anagram method here as mentioned in Manhattan GMAT.
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