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Chess Team

Source: 2015 AMC 8 #4

November 25, 2015
AMC 82015 AMC 8

Problem Statement

The Centerville Middle School chess team consists of two boys and three girls. A photographer wants to take a picture of the team to appear in the local newspaper. She decides to have them sit in a row with a boy at each end and the three girls in the middle. How many such arrangements are possible?
<spanclass=latexbold>(A)</span>2<spanclass=latexbold>(B)</span>4<spanclass=latexbold>(C)</span>5<spanclass=latexbold>(D)</span>6<spanclass=latexbold>(E)</span>12<span class='latex-bold'>(A) </span>2\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(B) </span>4\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(C) </span>5\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(D) </span>6\qquad <span class='latex-bold'>(E) </span>12