Arrangements with Two Specified Objects Not Together

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Arrangements with Two Specified Objects Not Together

## Formula

$$n!-2(n-1)!$$

Equivalently:

$$n!-2(n-1)!=(n-2)(n-1)!$$

## Usage

- Used when two particular objects are required to occupy non-consecutive positions.

Question 1

In a group of 3 girls and 4 boys, there are two boys $$B_{1}\text{ and }B_{2}$$. The number of ways, in which these girls and boys can stand in a queue such that all the girls stand together, all the boys stand together, but $$B_{1}\text{ and }B_{2}$$ are not adjacent to each other, is :

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