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If you have 2 distinct black playing cards and 2 distinct red playing cards, how many ways can you arrange the four cards given that the red cards can never be next to each other

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Answer:

I'm not 100% on the interoperation of this question...

are the two red cars out of a 52 card deck and you can try all the combinations of two red and black cards ????

for this answer i will assume that you have 4 coins two nickels and 2 quarters

and the question is " how many ways can you arrange the four coins given that the nickels can not be next to the quarters"

in that case I think the answer is 8

Step-by-step explanation:

1- N1 Q1 N2 Q2

2- N1 Q2 N2 Q1

3- N2 Q1 N1 Q2

4- N2 Q2 N1 Q1

5- Q1 N2 Q2 N1

6- Q2 N2 Q1 N1

7- Q1 N1 Q2 N2

8- Q2 N1 Q1 N2

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