A necklace is to be made from 3 red, 2 black and 2 white beads. How many possible configurations are there?
1 Answer
Dec 20, 2017
Explanation:
There are 7 beads. If all the beads were unique, there'd be
However, there are three groups of unique beads and within each group the beads are the same. And so we need to divide by the ways those groups can be interchanged (so that we get rid of duplicates). This gives:
