Lance has a regular heptagon (7-sided figure). How many distinct ways can he label the vertices of the heptagon with the letters in OCTAGON if the N cannot be next to an O? Rotations of the same labeling are considered equivalent.
I saw this question earlier, and I was reading the solution, and I didn't understand the middle part of the solution. The part before summing up all the numbers... Can someone help?
https://web2.0calc.com/questions/tricky-question_8
Edit: I'm wondering why there are so many N's, do the N's stand for an integer? Or the actual N in the word 'OCTAGON'?
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I have answered this on the original thread.
https://web2.0calc.com/questions/tricky-question_8#r3
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