Seating the Ambassadors

5/10combinatoricsCountingCasework

Problem

A round table has twelve chairs numbered 11 through 1212 in order. Four ambassadors, each accompanied by one advisor, are to be seated. Each ambassador must sit in an even-numbered chair, and each advisor must sit in a chair adjacent to his or her own ambassador. Let NN be the number of possible seating arrangements. Find the remainder when NN is divided by 10001000.

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Difficulty5/10
Topicscombinatorics, Counting, Casework

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