Five girls and two boys are standing in a line randomly. What is the probability that two boys are next to each other?

Explanation:

Let's say the teacher pulls the two boys out of the line, and stands in their place. So we have 5 girls and 1 teacher making 6 people total.

There are 6! = 6*5*4*3*2*1 = 720 different permutations here. Order matters. This involves the teacher, so let's have him/her step out of the line and have the two boys replace the teacher's position. This guarantees the boys stick together. For any permutation, we have 2 different ways to arrange the boys. So we have 2*720 = 1440 different ways to arrange the students so that the two boys are next to each other.

This is out of 7! = 7*6*5*4*3*2*1 = 5040 different permutations overall (we're arranging 5 girls+2 boys = 7 people).

The probability we're after is going to be 1440/5040 = 2/7

Or you could see it like this

1440 = 2*6!

5040 = 7! = 7*6!

So,

1440/5040 = (2*6!)/(7*6!)

1440/5040 = 2/7

step-by-step explanation:

in the absence of parentheses, i will have to make some assumptions:   i interpret your (3x+5/y^6)(4y^3/5)​ to mean:

3x + 5     4y^(3/5)       (3x + 5)(4)

* =

    y^6             1               y^(6-3/5)

if this is not what you expected, repost your question using parentheses to indicate whether you meant

4y^3

    or   4y^(3/5)

    5

step-by-step explanation:

i think something is missing in your question because y-1=(x-12) would not pass through the point (-4,-3). because if you replace x by -4 your are supposed to find y=-3 which is not the case her. if you replace x by -4 you find =-15.

i assume the right equation is y-1=1/4*(x-12) because this one is passing through both your points (if you are interested to know how i found that out i can tell you).

in this equation if i replace x by -4 i find y=-3 and if i replace x by 12, i find y=1 so the line representing this equation is passing through those 2 points.

then the standard form of the equation is finding an expression of y in function of x

y-1=1/4*(x-12)

y=x/4-3+1

y=x/4-2

hope that .

do you confirm there was a mistake in the question?