Round Table Seating
Combinatorics
Circular Permutations
Easy
Hint 1
Fix one person's seat to remove rotational symmetry.
Hint 2
Arrange the remaining 7 people in the remaining seats.
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1. Fix a reference
Fix one person's position to account for rotational equivalence.
2. Arrange the rest
The remaining 7 people can be arranged in ways.
Answer: 7!
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