2006-08-18 05:18:25 · 24 answers · asked by skyalex2310 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Assuming that the books are going to be library fashion and not stacked up or balanced in odd ways, the number is 3628800.
You have ten book slots. In the first slot you can put any one of ten books. In the second slot, you can only put one of nine books, because one book is in the first slot. The third slot can take any of the remaining eight books.
10 * 9 * 8 *7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 3628800
2006-08-18 05:32:42 · answer #1 · answered by TychaBrahe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The following table shows the number of books and the number of ways they can be arranged on a shelf:
books ways
1 1
2 2
3 6
4 24
5 120
6 720
7 5040
8 40320
9 362880
10 3628800
2006-08-19 04:11:16 · answer #2 · answered by Clinkit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 * 10=100
this how it works 10books and each one has 10 ways to be arranged. so it will be 100ways
2006-08-18 12:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
3628800
any of ten in the first spot
any of the remaining nine in the second spot
and so forth
so
10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1 = 3628800
2006-08-18 12:26:35 · answer #4 · answered by seektofind 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
120 500 460 ways
2006-08-18 12:55:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 ! = 3 628 800 (10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1)
2006-08-18 12:26:16 · answer #6 · answered by Panther 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
100 ways
2006-08-18 13:44:24 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ jojo ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OOOOH! numerous ways: colour, content, name - alphabetical or reverse, or even by the number of letters, and that's just vertically. Of course you could always arrange them in patterns - horizontally or stacked like bricks - oh it must be endless!
2006-08-18 12:25:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 1/2 (approximately).
2006-08-18 13:04:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
infinate number of ways? ofcourse it depends on the dimension of the shelfs, that could somewhat limit things.
2006-08-18 12:25:16 · answer #10 · answered by CosmicRush 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋