Try this beautiful Problem based on Enumeration appeared in AMC 10A 2021, Problem 20.
In how many ways can the sequence $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$, $5$ be rearranged so that no three consecutive terms are increasing and no three consecutive terms are decreasing?
Permutation
Enumeration
Combinatorics
An Excursion in Mathematics
AMC 10A 2021 Problem 20
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We have 5 numbers with us.
So, how many permutations we can have with those numbers?
So, $5!=120$ numbers can be made out of those $5$ numbers.
Now we have to remember that we are restricted with the following condition -
no three consecutive terms are increasing and no three consecutive terms are decreasing.
Now make a list of the numbers which are satisfying the condition given among all $120$ numbers we can have.
Now the list should be -
$13254$, $14253$, $14352$, $15243$, $15342$, $21435$, $21534$, $23154$, $24153$, $24351$, $25143$, $25341$
$31425$, $31524$, $32415$, $32514$, $34152$, $34251$, $35142$, $35241$, $41325$, $41523$, $42315$, $42513$,
$43512$, $45132$, $45231$, $51324$, $51423$, $52314$, $52413$, $53412$.
Count how many permutations are there?
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