AMC10 2015 A
AMC10 2015 A · Q10
AMC10 2015 A · Q10. It mainly tests Basic counting (rules of product/sum), Casework.
How many rearrangements of $abcd$ are there in which no two adjacent letters are also adjacent letters in the alphabet? For example, no such rearrangements could include either $ab$ or $ba$.
有多少种对 $abcd$ 的重排方式,使得任意相邻的两个字母在字母表中都不是相邻的?例如,这样的重排中不能出现 $ab$ 或 $ba$。
(A)
0
0
(B)
1
1
(C)
2
2
(D)
3
3
(E)
4
4
Answer
Correct choice: (C)
正确答案:(C)
Solution
Answer (C): In the alphabet the letter b is adjacent to both a and c. So in any rearrangement, b can only be adjacent to d, and thus b must be the first or last letter in the rearrangement. Similarly, the letter c can only be adjacent to a, so c must be the first or last letter in the rearrangement. Thus the only two acceptable rearrangements are bdac and cadb.
答案(C):在字母表中,字母 b 与 a 和 c 都相邻。因此在任何重新排列中,b 只能与 d 相邻,所以 b 必须是重新排列中的第一个或最后一个字母。同样,字母 c 只能与 a 相邻,所以 c 也必须是重新排列中的第一个或最后一个字母。因此,唯二可接受的重新排列是 bdac 和 cadb。
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