Wednesday, June 28, 2006

child and knives

There are ten knives kept on the table with their sharp edges pointing in one direction.

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a child looks at this and reverses the orientation but maintaining the neighbouring knives in opposite direction.one way child could do this is
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find the total num of ways in which child could do ?

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