JEE Advance - Mathematics (2019 - Paper 2 Offline - No. 12)
Five persons A, B, C, D and E are seated in a circular arrangement. If each of them is given a hat of one of the three colours red, blue and green, then the number of ways of distributing the hats such that the persons seated in adjacent seats get different coloured hats is ............
Answer
30
Explanation
Given that no two persons sitting adjacent have hats of same colour. Also, hats of different colour cannot be used in 1 + 1 + 3 combination because any three hats cannot be of same colour.
So, only possible combination due to circular arrangement is 2 + 2 + 1.
So, there are following three cases of selecting hats are2R + 2B + 1G or 2B + 2G + 1R or 2G + 2R + 1B.
To distribute these 5 hats first we will select a person which we can done in $${{}^5{C_1}}$$ ways and distribute that hat which is one of it's colour. And, now the remaining four hats can be distributed in two ways. So, total ways will be 3 $$ \times $$ $${{}^5{C_1}}$$ $$ \times $$ 2 = 3 $$ \times $$ 5 $$ \times $$ 2 = 30
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