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When Julia's parents return from Jamaica, they will give her a bracelet made of eight different sea shells with no visible clasp. How many different bracelets could have been made with these same shells? Why is the information about the clasp relevant?

 Feb 16, 2015

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I think having no visable end means that there is no beginning and no end to the shells

so the number of permutations  would be  (8-1)!

If there was a clasp then there would be 2 distinct ends and the numbero permutations would be 8! 

 Feb 17, 2015

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I think having no visable end means that there is no beginning and no end to the shells

so the number of permutations  would be  (8-1)!

If there was a clasp then there would be 2 distinct ends and the numbero permutations would be 8! 

Melody Feb 17, 2015

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