A hospital operating room needs to schedule three knee surgeries and two hip surgeries in a day.

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A hospital operating room needs to schedule three knee surgeries and two hip surgeries in a day. Suppose that an operating room needs to handle three knee, four hip, and five shoulder surgeries.

(a) How many different sequences are possible?

(b) How many different sequences have all hip, knee, and shoulder surgeries scheduled consecutively?

(c) How many different schedules begin and end with a knee surgery?

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Applied Statistics And Probability For Engineers

ISBN: 9781118539712

6th Edition

Authors: Douglas C. Montgomery, George C. Runger

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