The number of ways in which 3 boys and 2 girls can sit on a bench so that no two boys are adjacent is ______

The number of ways in which 3 boys and 2 girls can sit on a bench so that no two boys are adjacent is  ______
  1. 6
  2. 10
  3. 12
  4. 32

Solution

As no two boys can sit together their arrangement will be B G B G B

Boys will be arranged first and then girls will sit in between them.

The number of ways of arranging boys will be 3!=3×2×1=6

And, number of ways of arranging girls will be 2!=2×1=2

Therefore, total number of ways they can be arranged will be =6×2=12

Asked in: AP EAMCET 2021 (20 Aug Shift 1)

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