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Class Seating. If there are 30 students in a class and there are exactly 30 seats, how many possible seating charts can be made, assuming all 30 students are present?
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We need to find out the number of possible seating arrangements. This is a permutation problem because the order of the students in the seats matters and each student is unique (cannot be repeated). Show more…
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