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Question 4.8: Swimming Lane Allocation Study In a six-lane swimming pool, ......

Swimming Lane Allocation Study

In a six-lane swimming pool, how many unique arrangements (permutations) of six swimmers can be considered?

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The single event is the order of swimmers in lanes.

The number of different (unique) orderings of the six swimmers in the six lanes is given by:

6! = 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 720 different swimming arrangements
(permutations)

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