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Combinatorics 4.0/10

Alternating Delegations

Five American diplomats and five British diplomats (all ten distinct people) sit at a round table with ten seats, so that nationalities alternate around the table. Seatings differing only by a rotation are the same; mirror images are different. How many seatings are possible? Give an integer.

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Source: Classic counting exercise in wide circulation; no traceable original source. Statement written for AxiomIQ.